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Farming & the land, 1932

10,570 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 250

Bradford Activity Wool Trade Working Full Pressure Again

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 7

PERTH, Sunday.--The Premier, Sir James Mitchell, has received an optimistic letter from a prominent wool manufacturer at Bradford…

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Lang Govt. Determined to Help Dairymen to Do All in Its Power Sth. Coast Farmers Welcome Milk Board All Confident Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 6

"Farmers have every reason to grumble about the low price of milk, and it appears that the members of the Milk Board…

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Oversea Market Cables. the Wool Position. London, Jan. 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 11

Mr. W. P. Devereux, representative of the Australian woolgrowers, reports that movements in the wool markets are more largely governed by international finance and political…

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N.Z. Wool Sales Continent Keen Wellington (N.z.)

The Sun · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 2

Keen competition at the Napiere wool sales caused prices to firm as compared with December sales levels, values showing a rise of ½d 1b. all round, and being…

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5 p.c. Up To-day's Wool Sales Japan Busy

The Sun · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 8

A 5 per cent, advance was quoted at this afternoon's wool sales for any, types showing quality. Under keen all-round competition…

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What They Are Doing in the Markets Eggs Down by 3d a Dozen Potato Quotes Will Rise Ample Butter

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 8

Selected new-laid eggs will be 3d. a dozen cheaper to-day. Medium grade and pullet are down 2d and 1d a dozen respectively…

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Acted Up to Farm Effort Gold Digger Again

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 2

OWNER-TRAINER G. S. Luscombe must now be wondering how many races his three-years-old Gold Digger has lost through being…

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Dairy Cattle From Jersey

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 14

Jerseys for the Hawkesbury district, which arrived on the Port Bowen yesterday…

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Wheat Bounty

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 9

A poultry farmer at Maldon, who has grown eight acres of wheat, which has returned a full crop, asks whether he is entitled to the bounty on the wheat he is feeding to his birds…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Position Easier

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 13

The easier position of wheat overseas owing to buyers holding off caused the local market to weaken yesterday by about a halfpenny over the week-end. T[?] city parcels market…

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Wheat Truck Derailed Junee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 12

At midnight on Saturday, a mixed [?] train was half-way across the bridge at [?] thungra when a 36-ton truck, full of [?] wheat, broke away and fell over a steep [?]…

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Wheat and Oats. Results of Experiments

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 9

The vagaries of the past wheat season have left their mark on the crops which were sown as experiments on various farms in co-operation with the Department of Agriculture. The…

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Wheat Awaiting Shipment at Glebe Island

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 14

Stacking wheat on the Glebe Island wharves to await shipment overseas, was a particularly warm job for the men employed yesterday…

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Wheat Quota Modified Scheme Satisfies British Interests LONDON

The Sun · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 1

IT is now understood that in their modified form the Government proposals for the establishment of a wheat…

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At Top Wool Soaring U.s.a. in Market Firms

The Sun · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 10

American entry into wool buying competition had the effect of further hardening the market at to-day's sales…

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Wool Up Five P.C. Japanese Demand at Yesterday's Sales Keen Buyers

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 8

A further hardening tendency characterised the opening of the week's wool auctions yesterday and any lines…

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On the Land English Wool Trade. Catalogues Readily Absorbed. Superior Clips Cheap. (From Our Special Correspondent.) Bradford, Dec. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 9

The movement of wool values in London and all oversea selling centres is still being very closely watched, for the relationship between them all is fully recognised. An…

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Farmers and the Tariff. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 4

Sir,—In your issue of the 9th there appears a letter over the signature of A. Shallard which is misleading. I have tanned hundreds of cow hides during last year which cost on an…

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Farmer's Death. Charge of Murder Against Former British Officer. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 12

A case with sensational features was begun in the Criminal Court to-day, when Richard Graham Chappell, of Morawa, was charged with having, on November 6, wilfully…

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"They've a Nice Little Farm" Latest News of Land Women

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 7

BACK to the Land! called Canon Hammond in yesterday's "Daily Telegraph" announcing the movement as the only sane and…

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