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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

10,465 stories in Sydney's papers · page 48 of 250

Bodies of Two Babies in Farm Well Ghastly Find At Glen Innes One in Bag

Daily Pictorial · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 2

Sensational developments are expected to follow the finding of a baby's body and portion of another in a well on a farm at…

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Poultry Farmers Fear Fixed Prices

Daily Pictorial · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 14

WYONG.--A meeting of fifty district poultry farmers resolved to protest to the Minister for Agriculture against increases in the price of bran…

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Lady in a Teashop Husband Farm-Laboring In Australia LONDON

Daily Pictorial · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 4

CLOTWORTHY W. T. ROWLEY. who has become Baron Langford, of Ireland, owing to the death of his uncle, is believed to be farm-laboring…

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Butter Output. Bellinger River Factories

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 7

BELLINGEN.—The output of butter on the Bellinger River for December was 73.4 tons, or 9.1 tons less than for December, 1929. There was also a reduced price return, equivalent…

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Wheat Chartering. Latest Fixtures

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 4

During the past week the following vessels were fixed to load wheat at Australian ports for the United Kingdom or Continent, with other options…

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Much Wheat Rejected at Parkes Some Crops Still to be Stripped

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 14

PARKES, Monday. -- The local wheat silos closed oh Saturday, after receiving a total of 302,000 bushels for the season…

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Gaol for 3 Butter in Undies

The Sun · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 9

An astonishing story was related at the Campsie Court to-day when Ivy Davies, aged 21, was sentenced to a year's gaol, Sarah Smith, aged…

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World Wheat Pact Ottawa

The Sun · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 11

Talk is heard here of negotiations with various Powers, even Russia, to accomplish some semblance of orderly marketing of wheat…

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Queensland's Wheat Problem Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 7

The Premier Mr. Moore, to-day confessed that he was quite unable to say what Queensland wheat farmers would receive for this season's crop…

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Marketing of Wool. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 10

Mr. James Clark, who, with his partner, Mr. Peter Tait, controls several companies representing a large proportion of the woolgrowing industry in Queensland, said to-day…

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Austn. Butter Prices in Britain London, January 26

The Sun · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 6

In the House of Commons, Mr. G. M. Gillett, secretary to the Overseas Trade Department, answering Mr. J. J. McShane (Lab.), stated that wholesale prices of…

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Christchurch Wool Sales. Wellington (Nz)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 11

At the Christchurch wool sales to-day there was a full bench of buyers Bidding was fairly keen, within limits. Local mills took the bulk of the highest quality fine wools, paying to /11 for…

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Butter Prices Compared British Exports From Australia LONDON

Evening News · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 3

THE Cedar-Secretary to the Bould of Trade. Mr. Gillett, [?] Sir, M Shane (Labor) in the House of Commons to night, said the average value…

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Wool Sales on Again France and Germany Prominent

Evening News · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 6

THE sixth series of wool sales was opened at the Royal Exchange this afternoon, when a total of 10,620 bales was submitted…

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High Cost of Sheep Marketing Selling Charges' Big Swell Since 1909

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 14

TAMWORTH, Monday.--Some illuminating figures regarding the high cost of marketing sheep to-day, as compared with 1909, were given at the…

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Exchange Position. Effect on Wool Prices. LONDON, Jan. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 9

The "Morning Post," discussing the connection between the recession in wool prices and the Australian exchange, says: The exchange has the curious effect of lowering wool prices…

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Wheat and Bread Prices Bakers Want Permission To Charge More

Evening News · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 5

IN view the Governments Bill to fix the price of milling wheat for home consumption at 4-3 bushel some master bakers want permission to…

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The Land and the producer Wheat Price Fixing Scheme May Go Astray Millers Buy Up Old Grain Owing to Delayed Legislation

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 14

"Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and the State Government is 'fiddling' with side-issues while the farmer is going to the very devil," said, the general secretary of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, Mr. W. Cambridge, last…

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Loan for Farmers. Mr. Stevens's Reply to Mr. Dunn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 9

"The statement attributed to the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. W. F. Dunn) at Parkes on Saturday when addressing a deputation of wheatgrowers that the State Treasurer had…

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Breadstuffs. U.s. Farm Board Policy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 11

The United States Farm Board will require a great deal of money for what it still plans to do during the winter, according to the New York correspondent of "The Statist,"…

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