They Fielded with Tears in Their Eyes Financial Fiasco at Farm Bookies' Bags Were Full of Fresh Air—Not Frogskins Auld Lang Syne an Unpopular Number
Truth · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 2
PUNTERS and bookmakers are seriously thinking of making a round-trip of the morgues just to cheer themselves up. They might just as well go there and jump from slab to slab and enjoy themselves as attend a racecourse these days…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dropped the Anchor Lever's Levity at the Farm Not a Race
Truth · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 2
WHILE racing at the Ponies, a prad named Lever caused a bit of a sensation at Victoria Park when he should have walked in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bolted From Wife's Funeral Startling Sequel to Gruesome Triple Tragedy on W.A. Farm Solace Sought in Stick of Gelignite Perth
Truth · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 10
FOLLOWING hard on the heels of one of Westralia's most horrible and amazing crimes, in which Eva Trena McCaskell, aged 28, and her infant child were battered with an axe, and an 18-year-old farm hand named William Halbert was strung up to a rafter at a farm house near Bruce Rock on Tuesday, there came on Wednesday a ghastly development which throws a more awful light on the gruesome affair…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Books Out Betting Against Protest Bonawe's Win Valentino's Farm Stakes Effort
The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 9
Although bookmakers bet 4 to 1 against Bona we winning on a protest after dead-heating with Valentino in the Farm Stakes at Warwick Farm yesterday, they were bad judges…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Where Farmer and Wife Died
The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 2
The back of the horse-stable, where Mr. Walter Phelps Dall and Mrs. Dall met their deaths at their farm at Kumorna Siding, South Australia. The body of Mrs. Dall was found in front of the entrance and that of Mr. Dall just inside. Inset, Leslie Arthur Skilbeck, 17…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deep Gloom Losing Day at Farm
The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 2
Sadness set in with a vengeance in the ranks of the bookmakers at Warwick Farm yesterday. Those who declined to field-- and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Milk Price Reduction by Board Farmer's Concern Berry
The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 7
A further reduction in the price of milk, predicted by the Metropolitan Milk Board, is occasioning great concern among dairy-farmers, who…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →To Stop Country Credit Farmers' Plight
The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 5
WITH the prospect of credit being stopped, or, at least, drastically curtailed, new year prospects for farmers in many country districts are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Fliers and the Triers at Warwick Farm Yesterday
Daily Pictorial · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 8
JUST THOUGHTFUL. A happy little study far from the madding crowd yesterday at Bronte. START of the Warwick January Handicap at Warwick Farm. Nagrada is nearest camera. Antiochus…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wheat Steady
Evening News · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 4
The local wheat market to-day was steady owing to the increased exchange rates trade was limited. Bulk wheat in parcels sold at 2.5 a bushel and bagged lots at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Produce. the Butter Market
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 11
On the far northern and parts of the central northern rivers output has been declining, but in most other centres it has been stationary. As a result of nice rains in some…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Butter Production Should Improve
Daily Pictorial · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 12
Butter production is stationary in most districts. The exception is the Far North and Central Northern R[?]ers, where there is a decline…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Breadstuffs. Wheat Prices
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 11
A little over a week ago the Canadian wheat market slumped at one period during a day's operations to the record of 50 cents per bushel. It is interesting to note that…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Argentine Wool Clip
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 11
The Argentine wool clip for the year 1930 is estimated at 342,000,000lb, an increase of approximately 6 per cent. compared with the estimated production for 1929. The quality…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wheat Crops. Increase of Nine Per Cent. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 10
The total 1930 wheat crop for 41 countries, exclusive of Russia and China, is estimated by the United States Department of Agriculture at 3,649,656,000 bushels, an increase of 9 per…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Boy Farmer Chases Away Gloom Believes There is Money in Seed Wheat
Daily Pictorial · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 14
The optimism of George Cook, a member of the Timbumburi Junior Farmers' Club, is quite refreshing in these, days of low wheat prices and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wheat Glut Rationing in Force Now Full Silos Farmers Want 2s at Once
The Sun · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 8
Rationing is now being applied to the wheat industry. In the country 51 out of 99 silos are overflowing, and to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wheat Overseas Chicago Gains LONDON
Daily Pictorial · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 12
The market for wheat cargoes continued quiet. Though, occasionally, they were six pence higher, parcels remained dull. There was little change in London futures, which…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Lower Prices Homebush Stock Sales Heavy Cattle Supply
The Sun · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 8
Agents had to accept lower prices for wethers, ewes and hoggets during the opening sales at Homebush to-day. Only 38,200 sheep and lambs were penned, and,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Chicago Wheat Options. New York, Jan. 2
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 11
Chicago wheat options to-day closed: March, 80 cents per bushel (up [?] cent); May, 81[?] cents (up [?] cent); July, 65¾ cents (up ¼ cent)…
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