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Farming & the land, 1936

11,450 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 250

Japanese Complaints Australian Wool Shipments. Unevenness of Quality. Osaka, Jan. 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1936 · page 12

The Australian Trade Commissioner (Mr. Longfield Lloyd) conferred with 35 Osaka business men engaged in the Australian trade. Woollen manufacturers strongly complained…

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Sir James Hill. Wool Pioneer Passes. Picturesque Career London, Jan. 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1936 · page 11

The death occurred yesterday of Sir James Hill, Baronet, a pioneer of the wool trade, and one of the biggest buyers of Australian and New Zealand wool…

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Trade Review. Australian Loan. Surprise at Under-Subscription. Wool Industry Publicity. London, Jan. 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1936 · page 12

It was generally expected that the Australian conversion loan would be undersubscribed, but so poor a result came as a shock to the city, for there was no record…

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Farming Not Money Making

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 20 January 1936 · page 5

Farming is unique amongst men's employments, in that it is both a life and a profession or a business and a home. It is not to be regarded as a…

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Blown to Pieces Sensational Explosion at Eastwood Farm

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 20 January 1936 · page 4

A sensational explosion at Summer lakes poultry farm, Herring-road, Eastwood, on Friday morning early, resulted in the death of the proprietor of the…

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Warwick Farm Races Curator Wins Easily. Cereza's Sefton Handicap

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1936 · page 15

The Warwick Farm meeting on Saturday was one of the worst experienced by fielders for some considerable time. Every winner came from the well backed division, and in no…

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Bookmakers in Trouble. Ready Cash Problem. Embarrassment at Warwick Farm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1936 · page 14

Not for a considerable period has there been such a temporary shortage of money among bookmakers as there was at Warwick Farm on Saturday. The public fancies rolled home…

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Randwick Winners at Farm? Cereza & Curator Showed Good Form Ran on Well

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 January 1936 · page 2

EXCELLENT trials for important events they are to contest at the A.J.C. Anniversary meeting were registered at Warwick Farm on…

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Legislation for N.Z. Parliament. Guaranteed Prices to Farmers Wellington (N.z.)

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 January 1936 · page 4

Interviewed on Saturday, the Premier, Mr. Savage, stated that when Parliament met approximately at the end of February, the…

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Farmers Prepare to Resist Removal of Stay Orders Govt. Action In Two Cases Many Hit

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 January 1936 · page 6

THE disclosure in Friday's issue of the Government Gazette that two stay orders on farmers at Geurie and Coonabarabran respectively…

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Winds Affect Apple Crop

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 January 1936 · page 10

ACCORDING to a report issued by the Department of Agriculture, high winds caused a reduction in this season's apple crop on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation [?]…

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Higher Prices for Sheep and Lambs Dull Demand for Cattle

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 4

Prospects of small supplies for the next few sale-days had a marked effect on sheep values at Flemington saleyards yesterday. Prices for…

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Wheat Vessels

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 4

The British steamer Domingo de Larrinaga, which has been loading wheat at Port Pirie for the United Kingdom on behalf of Bunge (Aust.)…

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Good Price for Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 8

PERTH, Monday.--The highest price for wheat since 1929 was offered in Perth to-day, when merchants lifted the local siding price…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Market Steady

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 13

The local wheat market was steady, but quiet, yesterday. Shippers generally were less active, no doubt due to the paucity of sales overseas at the moment, and millers were only…

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Rates for Wheat Are Maintained

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 10

Although trading on the local wheat market was narrow yesterday, values (or both bulk and bagged wheat remained at last week's…

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Good Competition at Wool Sales

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 10

Competition for all description of wool, other than spinners', was very strong at yesterday's sales, and the market held firm. There was an irregular demand for the…

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Wool in London London, January 20

The Sun · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 6

Competition at to-day's wool sales was spirited, chiefly for Australian merino. Good clearance was effected at fully previous rates, the home trade and Continent being…

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Drawback Duty Allowed On Wheat LONDON

The Sun · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 17

The Treasury has authorised the allowance of a drawback of Customs duties in respect to wheat in grain. It is pointed out that the…

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Bradford and Wool a Distinctive City. I.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 10

Both in the factories of Bradford and on the wool stations of Australia, there is ground for rejoicing. Another important wool discovery has been made. The British…

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