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Farming & the land, 1931

10,465 stories in Sydney's papers · page 62 of 250

All Anxious Farmers Look to Bank Facing Ruin

The Sun · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 7

Farmers throughout the State are looking forward with anxiety to the conference which Mr. Scullin, Mr. Theodore and Mr. Moloney will hold…

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The Maize Crops an Unpromising Outlook N. Coast in Bad Plight

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 8

THE New South Wales matte crop position and prospects, is ascertained by reports obtained by the State Department of Agriculture from…

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Shot Dead on Farm Brother-in-law Charged With Murder

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Albert Henry Avard (28), laborer, was shot dead to-night on the farm of his brother-in-law, Charles Leslie Dixon…

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Farmers Talk Fight! Trouble in Store for City Cynics

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 2

When trouble comes to Australia it is going to start in the country. not the city, says Mr. Murdoch McLeod, well-known Wellington…

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Debacle in Western Riverina Rain Takes Heavy Toll of Crops

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 15

The full effect of the heavy December rains is to be seen in the many thousands of bags of bleached and shot wheat now stacked on the…

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Fire in Maloja's Hold Wheat & Wool Damaged

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 6

A CABLE received in Sydney yesterday stated that a [?] occurred in No. 7 hold of the P. and O. Royal Mall liner Maloid on Sunday…

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Better Wheat Farming Methods

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 11

DURING the discussion on the Marketing of Primary Products Bill in the N.S.W. State Parliament last week, the Labor Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Dunn)…

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Empire Butter Fleet

The World's News · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 37

The Lord Mayor of London, accompanied by the sheriffs, paid a State visit to Hay's Wharf, London, to greet the arrival of huge consignments of butter from Australia and New Zealand. The photograph shows Sir…

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Butter Export Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 15

During the week ended January 31 the Commonwealth graders examined at Sydney, for export, 11,867 boxes of butter, comprising 10,355 salted and 1512 unsalted. Exports for…

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Rural Notes and Pastoral Topics

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 40

Whilst a year ago nearly every responsible politician in the country was preaching to the farmer to grow more wheat, to-day they have almost unanimously reversed their cry. Meantime the farmer is left stranded with an enormous mountain of grain that will hardly pay for…

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Sheep and Mineral Licks

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 42

Further correspondence has been received in connection with the sheep-lick controversy. Here are two representative views. HENRY WHITE, Talbragar, Coolah, in a letter to the editor, deprecates our…

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Hawkes Bay Province. Rich Pastoral Country

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 14

Hawkes Bay comprises that portion of tne east coast of the North Island, from the Akitio River and Cape Turnagain, westerly to the Ruahine Ranges, and southerly to the…

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Brighter Wool Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 15

Winchcombe. Carson, Ltd, report:—Up to the present, the benefit of the oversea money exchange has not been apparent In woolgrowers' results Falling markets abroad have overseas the advantage…

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Advances on Wheat. Action Against Farmer. Bearing on Other Cases

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 18

Applications of importance to certain farmers were disposed of by Mr. Justice Stephen in the Supreme Court Chambers yesterday. They arose out of the pending action by Mungo Scott,…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Rather Quiet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 15

The wheat market showed little activity yesterday. Silo parcels were offered at 2/1, Sydney basis, and some business was transacted In small lots for Immediate…

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High Freight on Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 15

A correspondent writes from Erigolia enclosing a sale note for a truck of wheat which was sold at Alexandria, and which realised £51/16/2. From this amount, £15/6/5 was…

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Wheat Stackers' &c. (State) Award

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 16

The following are the rates ana conditions governing wheat stacking in New South Wales: 1. Definitions…

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Confidence Returning in Australia's Wool

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 41

The past week has been one of the most encouraging from the woolgrowers' point of view in quite a long time, and it now seems fairly safe to assume that the next season will see many of the dark clouds lifted.—By "Warp." ON quite a number of occasions during the past twelve or eighteen months there have been…

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Wool Sales. Full Clearances Made

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 15

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange Bridge-street when the quantity catalogued totalled 10,708 bales and the sales including private tiansactions amounted…

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Wool in London London, February 3

The Sun · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 5

For the wool sales to-day, catalogues comprised 8096 bales, including 1677 New South Wales, 913 Victorian, 537 Queensland, 531 South Australian, 682 West Australian…

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