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Farming & the land, 1935

11,044 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 250

A Good Change for Geitel in Farm Novice Hcp

The Labor Daily · Saturday 19 January 1935 · page 1

HAD she not lost ground at the start, Geitel would assuredly have troubled the winner, Nellie May, in the second division of the…

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Bandits Lift Wool, Wheat, Sheep Hard-up Farmer Victims Night Raids in S. Australia Adelaide

The Sun · Sunday 20 January 1935 · page 2

Wheat and wool bandits are causing consternation in country districts. IN motor trucks they swoop…

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Wheat Farmers Talk of Strike Adelaide

The Sun · Sunday 20 January 1935 · page 3

As a protest against the Farmers' Relief Act, a State-wide strike of wheat farmers, after the present harvest, is being advocated…

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Sheep Killed Thieves Adopt Amazing Methods Two Shots Fired

Truth · Sunday 20 January 1935 · page 16

EQUIPPED with keen-edged butcher's knives, steels, and other accoutrements of carcase butchers, a gang of three men…

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Wheat Thieves 1200 Bags Vanish in a Night Adelaide

Truth · Sunday 20 January 1935 · page 22

REMINISCENT of the old "rustling" days of the American Western States, bandits are wreaking havoc among wool and…

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'Farm' Fashions Braving Weather's Vagaries

Truth · Sunday 20 January 1935 · page 22

THE A.J.C. meetings (be they at Randwick or Warwick Farm), always attract a crowd, and yesterday was no exception…

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Jack Pratt's Sensational Escape at Warwick Farm "I Was Hanging Over the Rails' Leading Horseman Tells "Truth" That His Life Was in Danger Impasto Causes Impasse in Sefton

Truth · Sunday 20 January 1935 · page 2

SYDNEY'S leading horseman, J. Pratt, made an impassioned speech to "Truth" after he had wiped the perspiration from his head, neck, and ears at Warwick Farm yesterday…

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What I Saw Yesterday Racing Prosperous Down on the Farm

The Sun · Sunday 20 January 1935 · page 46

AT the conclusion of the racing at Warwick Farm yesterday, Mr. Geo. T. Rowe, the Australian Jockey Club secretary, reported that the fixture had been successful in every way. The favorable weather resulted in an increased attendance, the…

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Wheat and Wool Thieves Farmers Suffer Loss Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 7

Farmers in many districts have suffered severe loss by the operations of wheat and wool thieves. Wool bales and wheat bags have…

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Butter

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 3

The demand for butter on the London market has been good. Danish is quoted 118/ per cwt, choicest salted New Zealand 80/…

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Wheat

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 3

The wheat market closed steady last week, with buyers offering 2/11 for new season's bulk wheat, January delivery. Buyers raised…

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Wool

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 3

Late values were maintained at the Sydney auctions last week, the week's offerings totalling 48,743 bales, of which 90 per cent, was…

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Produce. the Butter Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 11

There was dining the meek a slight reduction in arrivals of butter but production is likely to be well maintained as all the dairying districts have experienced a good rainfall,…

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Marketing of Butter Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 5

TO investigate the marketing of butter with Britain on behalf of the Australian Dairy Export Board, Mr. T. F. Plunkett, M.L.A., will leave…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Market Firm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 11

The city wheat market was firm on Saturday with practically nothing offering Sellers weie asking 2/11 [?] for bulk wheat and an odd buyer was indicating 2/11 [?] Bugged wheat was…

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Australian Butter in London London

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 12

Reviewing the butter trade In 1934, James Gillanders, the well-known butter importers, Say that production is now a…

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Wool Market Easier Tendency

The Sun · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 9

Although prices for all well-grown descriptions were fairly well maintained at to-day's wool sales, the general market was 5 per cent…

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£700 CHARGE Buying Of Wool

The Sun · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 9

John Gilbert Snelling. 49, wool buyer, was charged at the Central Police Court to-day, with having, between November 21 and December 20,…

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London Wool Sales. London. Jan. l8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 11

At the London wool sales 8325 bales were offered, including 1733 New South Wales, 879 Queensland. 972 Victorian, 1282 Western Australian, 835 South Australian, and 2648 New Zealand, Approximate…

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Russia Buys Wool From Bradford London

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 12

Although French buying at the London wool sales was disappointing. German activity and also Russia's re-entry to the Bradford merino market is causing a more…

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