Wheat Trading. Mr. Forde Urges Resumption
In a message to the Wheat Commissioner of New South Wales (Mr. E. Harris) yesterday, the Acting Minister for Markets (Mr. Forde) strongly urges wheat merchants and traders…
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Shearers Wages. Graziers that are Exempt from the Pastoral Award
"Plockowner" asks for information regarding the operation of the award converting shearing. Answer.—The only award that exists are members of the Graziers' Association, or that were ciled before the Federal Arbitration Court by the A.W.U. The State Pastoral Award was suspended at the end of last year…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wheat Silos Full Farmers' Grain Being Turned Away at Many Country Stations Chaos Reigns in the Industry
Many of the wheat silos in the country are full and wheat offered for delivery is being turned away. Such, in a nutshell, is the desperate position in which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Chicago Wheat Options. New York, Jan. 8
Chicago wheat options to-day closed:— March, 87 cents per bushel (down [?] cent); May, 82[?] cents (up [?] cent); July, 66 cents (down [?] cent)…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Air Poisoned Wheat When Drunk PERTH
THIS man was eating poisoned wheat when arrived said the prosecuting sergeant to the police magistrate at Perth Court to-day as he handed up…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Market Business Practically at a Standstill
The delay on the part of the Federal authorites in making known something definite in regard to the operations of the Wheat Advances Act has brought trade…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Margarine Menace Combine's Effort to Oust Butter in England
Despite the low price of butter, the Margarine Union of Great Britain is meeting with a great measure of success in its efforts to extend the market for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Won't Want Ours Canada's Butter Output Ottawa
"Canada will be producing all the butter she requires within two years and the question of importing butter from Australia and New Zealand will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tax on Sheep Injunction Granted Against Tasmanian Meat Board
An interim injunction restraining tho Tasmanian Meat Board from imposing n tax on sheep was granted by Mr. Justice Rich in the High Court in Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheatgrowers Must Make Strong Demand Better Than Muddling Along Wheat Stabilisation Fund would Give Farmers £5,600,000 Immediate Action Necessary
IF rumor can be believed, the wheat traders of New South Wales have told Mr. Forde (the Assistant Minister for Markets in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Advances Act. Letter from the Bank Board. MELBOURNE
The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fenton), who is at Ballarat, said to-day that a letter had been received from the Commonwealth Bank in reference to financing the wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →On the Land the Wool Trade. Values Maintained. General Demand
While the opening New Year wool sales in Sydney this week did not show any advance in rates, many of those concerned were pleasantly surprised that a fall in values did not…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wool Sales Best Fleeces Firm, but Other Classes Slow of Sale
At the opening sales of the New Year in Sydney on Monday the market showed an improved tone and prices were equal to the closing rates of the December…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Russian Wheat American Expert's View Huge Exports Washington U S A
RECENTLY returned from an extended scientific tour of Russia, Or. Harbut, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Plot to Control Sale-yards Homebush Is Menaced Wool-selling Interests Secretly at Work Agents' Monopoly?
A FINE SCHEME is afoot for the complete control of the Homebush saleyards, as far as buying and selling are concerned. The idea seems to have germinated in the minds of those at the head of the Sydney wool-selling brokers, and is evidently designed to bring…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Price of Wheat Business at a Standstill Pending Decision of the Bank Board Voluntary Pool Offers ¼ a Bushel
The Acting Minister for Markets (Mr. Forde) stated last week that certain Australian when shippers were resorting to unnecessary price cutting on Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Land and the producer Move to Reassure Wheat Operators Inducements to Private Trading Firms to Resume Normal Business
In an effort to overcome the hold-up of the wheat trade, caused by the Federal deadlock over the financing of the wheat advances, desperate efforts are being made to induce wheat merchants and shippers to return to "business as…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Help for Farmers Huge Financial Corporation Formed in Canada
In order to help Canadian farmers, many of whom are in appalling financial difficulties, arrangements have been made for the formation of a private…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Assisted Farmers £389,327 Lent to 592 Settlers Last Year
Advances amounting to £380,327 were made to 502 settlers during the first year's operations of the Government Guarantee Board, appointed under the Advances to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →What's new in Dairying
THE New Year began well for N.S.W. dairyman. This week Sydney butter prices advanced 1d. per 1b. as a result of the increased exchange rates and the…
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