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Farming & the land, 1924

9,687 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 250

London Wool Sales

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 4

A cable, dated London, January 25, received by Messrs. J. Sanderson & Co., states that the market continues very firm for all grades. American…

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War Wool Profits

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 5

Profits made in the purchase of wool made by the British Government during the war will, it is estimated, amount to £64,300,000 on a total…

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Wool Sales. Excited Competition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 15

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 7158 bales, and the sales, including private transactions, amounted…

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Wheat Markets Quiet Sydney Trade

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 11

Activity in the wheat market is confined almost solely to business at country stations. There was very little movement of parcels In Sydney yesterday the…

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Cattle Tick. Outbreak at Numinbah MURWILLUMBAH

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 6

Redwater and tick fever are being experienced at Numinbah in a severe form. Two beasts have died, while two others were so badly infected that…

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Progressives Have Wheat Case at Last

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 4

At last the Progressives have discovered that they really have a case to present in connection with the 1917 wheat compensation…

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The Pastoralist Phenomenal Wool Sales : The Shortage

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 26

It is no exaggeration to describe the proceedings in the Sydney wool saleroom lately as phenomenal. The oldest in the trade cannot point to anything in any way approaching existing conditions, beside which all previous " booms" sink into insignificance. The range of values is all the time upward, and the level is a…

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Skin Wool Case Privy Council Appeal Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 5

Unofficial advices have been received that the skin wool appeal will be heard by the Privy Council on February 4. The amount involved is approximately…

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Oversea Messages London Wool Sales London, January 28

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 11

There were average selections at the wool sales to-day, with a fair offering of crossbreds. Total offerings comprised 10,600 hales. Prices were firm and…

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Unusual Charter. Ship Bellpool to Load Wheat for Shanghai

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 5

In the olden days it was fairly common for a sailing vessel to come out to Australia with general cargo thence Newcastle to load coal for Shanghai,…

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Truck Shortage Wheat Held Up at Sidings YOUNG

Evening News · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 9

Complaints about the shortage of railway trucks are becoming frequent. The Young Co—Operative Roller…

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German-american Buying Japanese Active Tenth Wool Series Close

The Sun · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 7

The single catalogue which was offered by Pitt, Son. and Badgery, Limited, at the Sydney Wool Exchange to-day, constituted the last sale of the tenth series…

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Oversea Market Cables. London Wool Sales. London, Jan. 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 15

At the London wool sales to-day there were average selections in a fair offering of crossbreds. Prices were firm and unchanged. Prices received for the undermentioned clips…

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Dunedin Wool Sales. Record for Corriedale. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 15

At the Dunedin wool sales to-day there was a particularly keen demand for finer quality wools, the most notable rise being in halfbreds, in which the average increase was /2. For a small line of super…

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Glut of Wheat on the Market a Gloomy View That May be Wrong--Question of World's Surplus

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 7

Mr. A. C. Gain, of 20 Linden Court, Castlereagh Street, Sydney, takes a gloomy view of the immediate outlook fur the Australian wheat farmer…

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To-day's Dairy of a Man About Town

Evening News · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 6

THE trusting little wife told her neighbor the story. "Bills in bed to-day with a bandaged bead." she said. Then, with tears: "It wasn't drink. You know, be took the pledge…

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South African Farming. Big Game Hunters Needed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 10

At the conclusion of the late war, Major E. W. Hunt, D.S.O., M.C., M.L.A. (who is a son of the late Mr. George Hunt, of Sydney, and nephew of Mr. A. E. Hunt, M.L.C.), established…

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Migrants. on Arrawatta Training Farm. Mr. Champneys Manager

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 13

Last year the Government secured a lease of Arrawatta Farm, in the inverell district, for the training of migrants. Yesterday the Government appointed Mr. Champneys as…

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Produce. Dairy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 15

Two prices ruled for new-laid eggs in the Sussex-street wholesale dairy produce markets yesterday. The "street" proper quoted 1/7 per dozen, and again reported a shortage, while one…

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The Happy Farm Home

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 27

A HAPPY farm home is usually insure by following this pe[?]pe: One cheerful and contented wife and mother: one industrious, hard-working husband and father:…

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