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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

731 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 20 of 37

Damage Slashes Rice Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 July 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Damage by frost and wild ducks has cut by 30,000 tons a bumper crop of 80,000 tons…

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Argentine Wool Export Drive

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 July 1952 · page 3

BUENOS AIRES, July 22. A.A.P.—Argentina had offered preferential exchange rates and tax concessions to wool…

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Better Butter Price By U.K. "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 July 1952 · page 1

LONDON, July 22.—Britain will pay about 3/6 (Australian) a lb for best Australian butter under a new…

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Tomago Field Day For Farmers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 July 1952 · page 5

Raymond Terrace Junior Farmers' Club will hold a field day at Mr. George Campbell's Tomago property on August…

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Cattle Show Deadlock

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 25 July 1952 · page 10

The continued dispute over a thtee-day cattle exhibition at Maitland Show is likely to result in…

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Cheap Wool From Argentina

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 July 1952 · page 1

LONDON, July 24. A.A.P.—In a bid to stimulate exports and help clear heavy stocks, Argentina has lowered the…

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No Alteration In Cattle Exhibit Days

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 July 1952 · page 8

The Hunter Valley Registered Cattle Breeders' Association, which this year urged a two-day cattle exhibition at…

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Opposition To Embargo On Sheep Export

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 July 1952 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Friday.—The Grazers' Federal Council to-day decided to continue to try to have removed the embargo…

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Wool "Still Supreme" "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 July 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK, July 27.—The President of the Wool Bureau (Mr. Ackerman) said today that wool was still the world's…

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Tractor Capsizes, Kills Farmhand

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 July 1952 · page 6

WAGGA, Sunday.—A farmhand was killed when a tractor overturned and planed him to the ground at Jerilderie,…

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Wool Income Was Halved

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 July 1952 · page 4

CANBERRA, Monday.—Australia's wool exports in the year ended June 30 last were only slightly below those for the previous year, but income was about halved because…

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U.S. Cattle King In Australia

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 31 July 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY.—The manager of America's biggest cattle ranch, Mr. R. J. Kleberg, has arrived in Sydney to…

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Hunter Dairy Report

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 31 July 1952 · page 16

With rain averaging three to four inches over most of the Hunter district at the end of the…

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Danish Farmer's 54-Year-OLd Horse

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 31 July 1952 · page 16

COPENHAGEN.—Eighty-year-old Danish farmer Andreas Larsen living in the small village of Tulle,…

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Boy Dies After Farm Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 August 1952 · page 1

A boy died in Taree Hospital yesterday a few hours after he was crushed between a truck and a land rover on…

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Drought Hits U.S. Farmers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 August 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK, August 1. A.A.P. —Farm officials from nine States stricken by drought were meeting to-day in an emergency session called by the United…

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Farm Fund Cut Hits Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 August 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday. — Because of reduced funds, soldier settlers would have to do more pioneering in their first years…

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Bank To Entertain Farmers, Settlers

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 4 August 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY.—The Bank of New South Wales will entertain delegates to the annual conference of the…

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Quarter Sessions at Maitland (Before Judge Brennan) Cattle Theft Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 14

On two charges of cattle stealing, Ronald Neville O'Hern, 20, taxi-driver, of Bellbird, was remanded for sentence till next…

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Govt. Aid Could Reap Crop Of Gold Medals

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 16

LONDON, Tues. (O.S.R.): Australia should win many more than the six gold medals she took at Helsinki when the next Olympic Games are held in Melbourne in 1956. That is if she finds the…

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