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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1932

10,570 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 250

Keen Wool Demand Values Tend To Harden Japanese Buy

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 6

Wool values continue to show a hardening tendency, naturally, most noticeable in lines coming within the scope…

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Oversea Market Cables. Bradford Wool Tops. London, Jan. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 13

The Bradford wool top market is quiet, with an easier tendency. RUBBER STOCKS. Stocks of rubber in London at the close of…

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100 Mile Fiery Car Ride Blinded by Smoke for Hours Many Sheep Burn

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 5

COBAR, Tuesday.--Mr. T. Bowe, Cobar-Wilcann[?]a mailman, reported to-night that the fires had taken…

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Wheat Quota Plan Certain Bruce Is Prophet An Inter-Trading Empire Duties Down

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 5

PERTH, Tuesday.--"I think it can quite definitely he stated that Britain will establish a wheat quota scheme for…

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Fires Rage on Many Fronts Big Areas Sheep, Fences, Stations and Grass Destroyed Plucky Fight Goes on

The Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 8

The fire area extends from near Canberra, on the south to beyond Bourke on the west, and to Hay in the Southwest, as the following reports received to-day, show:-- Coolac.--About eight or nine small…

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On the Lan English Wool Trade. Values Recede Slightly. Financial and Other Problems. (From Our Special Correspondent.) Bradford, Dec. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 9

Halt! This seems to be the command issued to the wool textile industry. Whence it comes would not be easy to say in a word or two, but on all hands it is lound that wool…

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Queensland Sprinter Booked for Fresh Field Brisbane Mare to Leave for Melbourne Lady Linden Won Six Races on End at Eagle Farm Preparing for Newmarket

Referee · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 4

LADY LINDEN, most spectacular of Queensland's sprinters during the last year, is booked to leave Brisbane for Melbourne by the "Orungal" next Saturday. She is to undergo a preparation for the…

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Nearly Upset Applecart Late Scratching at "The Farm" Ring Suffered

Referee · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 3

THERE was a strange diversion in the early betting on the Sefton Handicap, the important sprint at Warwick Farm's meeting on…

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Suburban Dairymen. Request for Price Fixation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 9

At a well-attended meeting of the Metropolitan and Suburban Dairymen's Association yesterday, members discussed the new Milk Act and the prospects of the industry under the…

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Advances to Farmers. Method of Calculating Interest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 9

Instructions have been given that in future the interest on advances made by the Rural Industries Branch is to be charged from the actual dates of payment…

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Help for the Farmers Interest on R.i.b. Loans

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Dunn, stated yesterday that in view of the fact that many farmers are experiencing a very difficult time…

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Grain Flows to Silos Farmers' Great Saving

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Dunn, in a statement yesterday, said that the silo system had shown wonderful results in efficient working…

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Sheep Dearer Another Small Supply Cattle Sell Well

The Sun · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 14

A very small supply of sheep for a Thursday's sale was available at Homebush today. The supply included all classes of…

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Commercial. WOOL

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 29

Messrs. Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report:—Owing to the Christmas holidays no sales have been held locally, and interest is centred in the re-opening of the…

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Commercial. Wool Sales Resumed

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 19

The secretary Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co. reports:—Wool sales were resumed in Sydney on 4th January arid the "F. &. G." offered 7313 bales of…

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Country News Wheat Handling Record

The Sun · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 22

FINLEY, Thursday.--A record for any one station in Australia for receival and despatch of wheat was made at Finley Station on Monday,…

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Wheat Fixtures. Vessels From the Tyne

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 4

The British steamer Quarrington Court (Captain Winters), which left the Tyne on November 11 for a port not disclosed, has arrived at Geelong…

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On the Land Export Butter. Transport and Marketing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 5

A larger and more equally distributed supply is vital to the expansion of the Australian export trade in butter, but progress in production and marketing can be concomitant…

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Best Price Wool Record for Week

The Sun · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 14

Values were fully equal to the best at any point in the week at to-day's wool sales. Competition was spirited and even…

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Wheat Quota Scheme for British Government London

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 5

The millers, farmers, and wheat merchants are reported to have formulated a quota scheme agreeable to the Government, and are…

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