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Farming & the land, 1920

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Loss of £5025 Casino Dairy Company CASINO

Evening News · Saturday 24 January 1920 · page 4

Some five months ago the shareholders of the Casino Co-operative Dairy Company decided to have a special audit made of the company's affairs. The work…

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Farm-waggon Wedding: Romance of a Bull's Attack

The World's News · Saturday 24 January 1920 · page 11

A ROMANCE arising from the heroism of a land girl was completed by the wedding recently of Miss "Peggy" Fisher, the young Land Army girl who won the distinguished…

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Produce. Dairy. Case Eggs Cheaper

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1920 · page 14

Supplies of case eggs were again heavy yesterday, and prices were easier. River consignments were offered at 1/6, and parcels from the South Coast and raliway centres at from…

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Japanese After Wheat MELBOURNE

Sunday Times · Sunday 25 January 1920 · page 2

Japanese buyers have been negotiating in Victoria for some time past for a large quantity of third grade wheat, and the Australian Wheat Board has fixed the…

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Wheat Again Conspiracy Alleged Five Men Charged

The Sun · Sunday 25 January 1920 · page 4

Following on Mr. Justice Pring's report on the administration of the State Wheat Office, the following were charged at the Central Police Court…

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Shipments of Wheat Imperial Government Contracts MELBOURNE

The Sun · Sunday 25 January 1920 · page 2

Wheat continues to be shipped in large quantities on behalf of the Imperial Government. For the week ended January 19 the quantity sent…

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Wheat Coming In. No Chance of Floor Shortage

Sunday Times · Sunday 25 January 1920 · page 1

The Government has arranged with Victoria for the despatch of 5000 tons of wheat, to be sent weekly from Melbourne to the border, and carried thence…

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Alleged Conspiracy Five Men Charged with Corrupt Dealing a Wheat Transacts

Sunday Times · Sunday 25 January 1920 · page 2

Reginald Herbert Arthur Rheuben; John Douglas Brunton, 34, foreman ; Edward Patrick Michael Sheedy, 45. accountant; Selby Churchill, 32,…

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Big Profit on Australian Wool Cabled Reports of 3000-per cent. Not Taken Seriously By Trade Growers Will Benefit

Sunday Times · Sunday 25 January 1920 · page 4

The cabled statement, alleged to have been made by Mr. Mackinder, a Yorkshire warehouseman, that the profits made by woolspinners were from 400…

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Poultry Farmers Strangled

The Sun · Sunday 25 January 1920 · page 2

At yesterday's meeting of the Cumberland Labor Council, held in Macdonell House, it was decided to forward a protest to the Government regarding…

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Produce. Australian Butter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1920 · page 8

The price of choicest quality butter was reduced 1½d per lb on the 19th inst., and official quotations now stand: Firsts 177/4, seconds 172/8, and thirds 168/, plus 2/ per cwt for…

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Cheaper Butter. Protest's From Producers

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 January 1920 · page 3

BRANXTON.--The directors and suppliers of the Branxton Co-operative Dairy Company view with, alarm the recent reduction in butter prides, which will tend to decrease. butter…

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Wheat Pools in Credit

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1920 · page 8

All States in the Wheat Pool are now in credit, the total credit balance on January 19 being £382,000, compared with £262,000 on January 12. During the week there has been…

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Wheat Pool in Credit

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1920 · page 8

The Australian Wheat Pool, which on June 30 last was in debit £18,446,000, is now in credit £382,000. New South Wales is in credit £62,000. In the interval there have been…

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Breadstuffs. Australian Wheat Statistics

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1920 · page 8

The Australian Wheat Board supplies statistics relating to the wheat handled during the past four seasons, to January 19, 1920. The following totals for Australia are…

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Butter and Cheese Bonuses. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1920 · page 5

An amendment has been gazettcd in the War Precautions regulations providing that suppliers of butter or cheese to the Federal butter pool are not to receive "bonus moneys,"…

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Wheat Inquiry. Conspiracy Charges Two More Arrests

Evening News · Monday 26 January 1920 · page 1

Thomas Smith, 50, merchant, appeared before Mr. M. Fitshardings at the Central Police Court this morning an in charge of having at Sydney, on [?]…

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Kiama Show. Magnificent Cattle Display. (From Our Special Correspondent.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1920 · page 5

KIAMA.—The local show, which opened on Saturday, firmly established [?]self as one ot the leading cattle exhibitions of the State. The South Coast has enjoyed a phenomenally good season, and the splendid…

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Wheat Tangle Two More Arrests Smith and Robinson

The Sun · Monday 26 January 1920 · page 5

The remaining two of the warrants issued on Friday in connection with the wheat inquiry were executed yesterday, when Thomas Smith, aged 50,…

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