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Farming & the land, 1934

12,588 stories in Sydney's papers · page 61 of 250

Reports on Wheat London

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 1

The International Wheat Advisory Committee is meeting in Australia House to consider the report drafted by the two sub-committees in…

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Straight Australian Wheat Production in Australia

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 11

SOME months ago, when the word Economic Conference at London was debating a proposal to drastically restrict wheat production in the leading grain…

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Wool Record Scoureds at 46¼d

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 4

BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Another price record was created at the wool sales to-day, when 46¼d was paid for five bales of scoured. This is the…

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Wool Values Still on a Satisfactory Basis

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 39

As the wool-selling season draws to an early close, values are remarkably stable. The slight easing of a few weeks ago was merely incidental, and a good deal of it has been recovered. The average price is still over 20d per pound — and that must be accepted as highly satisfactory. — By "Warp."…

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Stability of Wool Extreme Prices Not Desirable

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 12

Evidence of the rapid sale of this season's clip is supplied by the fact that at this time last year the quantity of wool on…

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Tough Nut Wheat Conference's Weary Session LONDON

The Sun · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 15

AFTER discussing all day methods of reducing stocks, increasing consumption, and raising prices…

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Finnish Barque Arrives for Wheat Cargo. Woman Passenger

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 14

The four-masted Finnish barque, Pamir, arrived in Sydney yesterday from Port Victoria (S.A.). She is more than 100 days out from the United Kingdom. She is to remain in…

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Winged Wheat Carriers Sailing Fleet in South Australia

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 13

On January 8 ten sailing vessels lay at anchor at Port Victoria, South Australia, and no fewer than seven of them arrived in one day. Last season 20 sailers raced home…

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Wheat Is Slightly Improved Chicago Options Show A Rise

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 10

Following reports of, a firmer market for wheat in Chicago there was a slightly improved tone on the local market…

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The World Wheat Problem National Barriers, Restrictions and Consumption

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 1

Although so many of the economic problems of the present time seem to be centred in goods which have gone through factories, the fundamental problems that must be faced have very little to do with this at all…

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LOST £1000 Grazier Says Due To Wool Prices

The Sun · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 10

The Bank of New South Wales proceeded against Joseph William Kneipp, a grazier, to-day before Mr. Justice Shepherd An Chambers to…

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On the Land Wool Production. The "Small Man's" Influence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 11

Figures to show the extent to which wool in Australia was produced by "small men"— often as a sideline—were quoted last night at a dinner given at the Carlton Hotel by the…

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Finnish Four-masted Barque Pamir in Port Jackson to Load Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 16

A STRIKING PHOTOGRAPH OF THE BARQUE AT ANCHOR OFF POINT PIPER…

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Conditions in the Wheat Yards. Organiser Gunn on the Value of Unionism

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 20

For the last four weeks I have been employed among the wheat lumpers and silo workers In the Riverina. It is one of the worst seasons I…

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Wheat Situation. Need to Increase Exports. Liquidating Surplus Stocks. London, Jan. 29

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 13

After reviewing the world situation in the last two months the Wheat Advisory Committee, appointed last year by the International Wheat Conference, concluded that…

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Wool Exports for Five Months. £10,507,788 More Than Last Year

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 4

WOOL exports from Australia for the first five months of the current financial year amounted, in Australian currency, to £24,083,532…

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Bashed and Battered. Ill-treatment of Lads on Welfare Farm. Sensational Allegation Made

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 2

HOW lads were bashed and battered and otherwise maltreated was told last week at Leeton (N.S.W.) at the investigation ordered by. the N.S.W. State…

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Northern Territory Farm. Cost £30,000; Rented at 5/ a Week

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 7

A big game hunter named Mr. J. Gagny, has leased the Northern Territory Demonstration Farm at Bachelor, established by the Federal Government in 1912, at a…

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By Hair Farm Boy's Story "Pulled From Bed" Bashing Alleged Leeton

The Sun · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 13

ALLEGATIONS that Major Parsonage, Superintendent of the Yanco Welfare Farm, who has temporarily…

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"Farm Boys Battered" Journalist's Story LEETON

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 5

WHEN the Riverina Welfare Farm inquiry was resumed today, Leslie Henry Levieh, journalist, said that while playing in a football match at Yanco Park he noticed two bunches of farm inmates running around the quadrangle. In front of each group…

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