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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1920

8,968 stories in Sydney's papers · page 77 of 250

Farmers Protected Wheat Charges Rebutted

Evening News · Monday 1 March 1920 · page 4

A manifesto issued by Mr. Holman and Major Darcy, as selected Nationalist candidates for Cootamundra, after rebutting charges against the State Government in…

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Produce. Australian Butter Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1920 · page 9

The advance in butter prices has not yet had any noticeable effect on the volume of sales in the local market. Prescott, Ltd., says that, in view of the conference which…

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Australian Wheat Pool

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 1 March 1920 · page 4

According to a return by the Australian Wheat Hoard, the total value of the wheat sold and delivered through the Board on account of all…

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Breadstuffs. Australian Wheat Statistics

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1920 · page 9

The Australian Wheat Hoard supplies statistics relating to the wheat handled during the last five seasons to February 23, 1920. The following totals for Australia are…

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Wheat Inquiry Conspiracy Charges

Evening News · Monday 1 March 1920 · page 5

The hearing of the charge of conspiracy against Reginald Herbert Arthur Rheuben 40 Edward Patrick Michael Sheedy 45, an accountant; William…

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Victori's Wheat Yield. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1920 · page 6

The Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Oman, states that up to February 16, 11,800,000 bushels of wheat had been received into the pool on account of the year 1920, and it was…

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Butter for Britain Contract or Open Sale?

The Sun · Monday 1 March 1920 · page 4

A conference of tho whole of the butler factory owners of Now South Wales is to be hold in Sydney on March 8, to consider the question of making a -…

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Wheat Case Conspiracy Charge Cost of Bags

The Sun · Monday 1 March 1920 · page 5

The ease in which William Alexander Robinson. Edward Patrick Michael Sheedy, Julian Thomas Martin, and Reginald Arthur Rheuben are charged…

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Pre-war Market Conditions. Butter and Cheese Makers' Desire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 March 1920 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Representatives of the Co-operative Butter and Cheese Factories' Association of Victoria unanimously adopted the following resolution at a conference…

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Food Control. the Price of Wheat. London, Feb. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1920 · page 7

It is officially announced that Government control over home-grown beef and mutton will cease on July 4. The Government hopes that the control of the price of wheat by the…

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Government Wheat Policy. Premier in Defence. Statement to Electors

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 March 1920 · page 4

COWRA, Saturday.--Mr. Holman and Major Darcy, the selected Nationalist candidates for Cootanmundra, have issued the following statement to the electors, in reply to "the attacks…

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England's Food Lifting Control Wheat to be Free LONDON. February 29

The Sun · Monday 1 March 1920 · page 1

In view of the shrinkage of the area under wheat, totalling 4,000,000 acres. In 12 months, the Cabinet has decided on the decontrol of wheat by tutumn,…

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Soldier Settlers State Farms in Competition BATHURST

Evening News · Monday 1 March 1920 · page 4

A protest is being made by the local orchardists and vegetable growers against the competition of the Bathurst State farms, whose produce is largely…

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Increased Freights Farmers Complain BERRIGAN

Evening News · Monday 1 March 1920 · page 5

A meeting held at Oaklands, of the [?] district council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, resolved that an emphatic protest [?] entered against…

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Farmers Support Nationalists. Progressive Campaign Discountenanced. Culcairn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1920 · page 7

At the annual meeting of the Holbrook Farmers and Settlers' Association a resolution was carried "That this branch refrains from forming any committee to…

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Produce. Dairy. Heavy Supplies of Butter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 March 1920 · page 8

The market was heavily stocked with butter [?]esterday. Over 20,000 boxes were received from the coastal districts, and of that quantity 6479 boxes came from Byron Bay. Quotations…

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Wheat Cases

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 March 1920 · page 5

The wheat conspiracy charges were proceeded with at the Central Court yesterday, before Mr. Gale. S.M. William Alexander Robinson, Edward…

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Wheat Cases. Conspiracy Charge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 March 1920 · page 7

The hearing of the wheat conspiracy charges was continued at the Central Police Court yesterday before Mr. Gale, S.M. The defendants are William Alexander Robinson,…

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Wheat Inquiry Conspiracy Charges

Evening News · Tuesday 2 March 1920 · page 5

The hearing of the conspiracy [?] arising out of the inquiry of Mr. Justice Pring into the administration of the State Wheat Office was continued before…

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The Price of Wheat an Anomaly Criticised by Growers. Wagga Farmers Complain

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 2 March 1920 · page 7

Farmers in the Wagga (N.S.W.) district complain of the anomaly of the government paying 5/ per bushel to the growers for f.a.q. wheat in the pool…

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