Overland from Perth to Forbes in Eight Days Veteran W.A. Farmer's 2,492 Miles Trip
The Land · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 12
ACCOMPANIED by his wife, a 68-year-old West Australian farmer, Mr. Charles Smith, has just completed a strenuous 2492 mile motor tour right through from Weirmonger (W.A.) to Forbes, in eight days…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →For the Tractor Owner and Power Farmer New Diesel Power Unit
The Land · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 12
IN view of the great interest which is now being taken in Diesel…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Produce. Dairy
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 15
A stight decline in egg production, coupled with the effects of an exceptionally good demand over past weeks, resulted in the Egg Board cutting down their supplies to some…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fairbridge Farms Praised. Earl De La Warr's Views. Perth
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 12
Earl De [?] Warr [?] last night from an aeroplane flight to the Fairbridge Farm School, established by the late Kingsley [?]airbridge, which was the model for two…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Scalded and Scorched. Crops and Foliage on M.I.A. Heat Wave Experienced. Griffith
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 11
The Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area has experienced a severe heat wave this week, temperatures of 101, 104, and 107.8 degrees having been recorded during the last three days…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Stricken Farmers Need Aid Approach To Labor DEPUTATION To Stevens Government
The Workers' Weekly · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 4
From all quarters of a large area in southwest N.S.W., 600 men gathered at Lake Cargelligo recently to devise methods to cope with conditions arising from disastrous crop failures, and stave off the ruin that has been threatening them for the past…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Delegates for Farm Congress
The Sun · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 8
The Minister in Charge of Celebrations (Mr. Dunningham), has received the names of delegates from overseas to the Empire Producers'…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Minister on S.w. Farmers
The Sun · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 2
CONCERNING a leading Ld article in "The Sun" on Wednesday on the plight of the farmers in the South-West of the State,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Charters
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 4
The barque Archibald Russell has been chartered by John Darling & Son to load 3550 tons of bagged wheat at South Australia, lay days March 1 to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Wheat Increase
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 1
CANBERRA, Friday.--An increase of 11 per cent. in the acreage sown to wheat for the 1937-38 season was announced by the Commonwealth Statistician (Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Loadings and Stocks
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 13
During the week ended January 8, 236,167 bags of wheal were despatched from country stations, making a total of 6,331.765 bags for the current season, compared with 5,820.777…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Breadstuffs. Firmer Tendency in Wheat
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 13
Trading was quiet in the Sydney wheat market yesterday, but there was a firmer tendency. Odd sales of bulk percels for delivery in January were made shortly after the market…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Big Wheat Surplus Canberra
The Labor Daily · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 12
IT is estimated by the Commonwealth Statistician that 13,748,000 acres will be sown to wheat in Australia during the 1937-38 season. A conservative estimate places the yield from this acreage at 161,781,000 bushels…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 8
Values elsewhere than in Sydney are expressed in English currency. Liverpool Values: March delivery—closed at 4/6 5/8 per…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Canadian Wheat Exports. Ottawa, Jan. 14
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 12
The Bureau of Statistics announces that, in 1937, wheat exports totalled 96,000,000 bushels, valued at 124,439,000 dollars (£A31,109,750)…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Record Wheat Harvest. Inverell District's Successful Season
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 8
[?]VERELL, Friday.—As a result of higher yields and a greater area under cultivation, the wheat harvest of the Inverell district has reached record figures…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Oversea Market Cables. Bradford Wool Tops. London. January 13
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 17
The Bradford wool tops market is steadler. Users are well covered. Topmakers are holding off but Inquiry is improving Quotations:—Merinos, seventies /20 per lb (down /l[?]; sixty- fours,[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Australia's Wheat Harvest. Heavier Yield Expected. Increased Area. Canberra
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 8
Australia's wheat harvest for the current season will be considerably greater than earlier estimates indicated. The Commonwealth Statistician, Dr. Roland…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On the Land the Wool Trade. Sales in Brisbane. Japan Quiet
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 8
No quotable change was experienced in wool values at this week's opening Brisbane sales, but any alteration in prices was in favour of buyers,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →U S. and Japan Stop Buying Wool Slack Days In Bradford LONDON
The Sun · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 5
THE drop in wool prices is disappointing because the statistical and technical position of the raw wool market is perfectly sound, comments the "Financial News." The chief reason is the restricted American and…
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