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Farming & the land, 1938

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Wheat Weaker, But May Improve

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 14

LONDON, Sunday. -- The favorable European crop reports and the belief that Southern Hemisphere pressure would soon become an important market…

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Portugal Now Imports Wheat London

The Sun · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 5

Portugal, which two years ago was a considerable exporter of wheat, will now import wheat and will take between 60,000 and 80,000 tons over…

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Oversea Market Cables. Meat Quotations. London, Jan. 14. SHEEP

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 11

NEW ZEALAND: Crossbred wethers and/or maiden ewes under 48lb, /5[?] (/6); ditto, 48 to 56 lb, /5[?]; ditto, 57 to 64 lb, /5[?]; ditto, 65 to 72 lb, /4[?] (/4[?]); ewes, 48lb and under,…

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Race for Wool in Wartime London

The Sun · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 7

MR. EDWARD HOLMES, the new president of the Wool Federation, declares there is too little wool in…

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Napier Wool Sales. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 11

The second Napier wool sales opened with prices ½d to 1d [?]oove the first series prices. Prices were firm on the levels at the last sale in Wellington. Continental buyers supplied most of the…

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Want Wheat Marketing Board Set Up Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 10

Important proposals which the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation will submit to the Empire Producers' Conference in Sydney on…

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Lightning Kills Two Men Droving Sheep Near Gundagai Gundagat

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 6

Two sheep drovers, Edward Raymond Alexander Laney, 27, and Perolvai Roy Wheatley, 25, both of Wagga, were struck dead by…

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£10,000 Invested In Big Beef Cattle Shipment From America

The Sun · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 7

THIRTY-TWO head of polled shorthorn beef cattle, claimed to be the biggest and most valuable shipment of the kind ever to enter Australia from the United States, arrived at Sydney to-day by the American…

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Credit for Farmers London

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 5

CONSULTATIONS are proceeding between the Ministry of Agriculture and the National Formers' Union concerning the scheme…

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Chance To Cool Off Now Humidity Gone for a While, States Forecast Country Rains Give Crops Soaking

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 7

AFTER weeks of trying humidity, Sydney may expect cooler conditions with occasional showers, states the Meterologist's forecast. Although thunderstorms and rain squalls were…

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Wheat Charters

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 4

Bunge (Aust.) Pty., Ltd., have chartered the Panaghis to load 7300 tons of wheat at Western Australia, lay days March 1-25, rate 38/…

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Cattle Shipment From America

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 10

Believed to be the largest shipment ever brought from America, 40 cattle, valued at £10,000, arrived in Sydney yesterday by the motorship…

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World Wheat Shipments

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 13

World shipments of wheat to Europe during the week ended January 13 totalled 925,000 quarters, and to other countries 200,000 quarters, an aggregate of 1,125,000 quarters,…

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Wheat Sales Slow

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 13

In sympathy with the London market, local wheat was steady and quiet yesterday at 46 bushel. Small lots sold at that price to millers. There…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Market Steady

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 13

With quiet trading the Sydney wheat market remained steady yesterday. There was a pause in the demand, and sellers were not pressing. Small sales of bulk wheat for delivery in…

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Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 5

The State Marketing Bureau (Department of Agriculture) advises as follows regarding local and overseas wheat values and sales…

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Business Was Slack in Wheat

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 10

TRADING on the local wheat market was exceptionally slack, due mainly to the fact that options on all the principal grain exchanges…

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Brisbane Wool Sales Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 6

Under animated competition the fifth series of the Brisbane wool sales opened to-day. Prices were fully firm at the closing rates of last…

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Melbourne Wool Sales Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 6

At the Melbourne wool sales today, values were practically unchanged. compared with those operating in Tasmania last week…

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The Fall in Wool Prices

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 9

Mr. W. W. Killen writes:- The loss to Australia by the fall in wool prices will surely be deplored by all thinking Australians, who realise how important it…

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