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Farming & the land, 1940

6,932 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 250

Bagged Wheat Delivery Row

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- A quarrel between the Grain Elevators Board, the Australian Wheat Board, and hundreds of Victorian farmers is developing over…

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Claims Wheat Been Shipped

Daily News · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 5

The State Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Reld, raid last night that it was incorrect to say that no wheat had been shipped from Australia…

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Wheat Deal in Offing

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 2

FROM Canberra to-day (Thursday) comes nows of an impending big wheat deal for the sale to Britain of in…

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Huge Sale of Wheat

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 10

WINNIPEG reports the sale of 22,000,00 bushels of wheat and flour overseas, mostly to the Allied Cereal Board. It was the largest sale since…

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Distribution of Wool Production

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 5

FIGURES issued by the National Council of Wool Belling Broken show that the number ol owners consigning wool to the Sydney market totalled 23,705…

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Wheat Is Safe Temporary Storage

The Sun · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 10

Millions of bushels of wheat are still pouring in to country centres where silos are already full, but…

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A Threat? Substitutes May Menace Butter Market

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 4

FEARS that Australia's butter export trade after the war may be injured as the result of British rationing are felt by several firms in…

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Plans for Cattle Show at Moss Vale

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 4

A "ONE day cattle allow" has been adopted by Berrima District A. and H. Society. in the past cattle were Judged on the first day of the annual…

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Catholic Action Groups. The Archbishop of Sydney's Pastoral Letter

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 26

His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. M. Kelly, Archbishop of Sydney, has issued the following Pastoral Letter to the Clergy, Religious and Laity of the…

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Big Deal in Wheat Winnipeg

The Sun · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 5

It is understood that 22,000,000 bushels of wheat and flour were sold overseas to-day, mostly to the Allies' cereals board…

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Commercial. Wool Report. The Tasmanian Clip

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 39

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:—Tasmania opened the second half of the Australian wool season with appraisements commencing on January 3. As…

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Big Cheque Payments for Wool Clip

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 10

VALUE of the 1,450,000 bales of wool appraised from October to December was £25,209,147 in Australian currency. Average price of greasy…

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Beef Cattle at Sydney Show Many Alterations in Schedule

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 3

NEVER in the history of Australia has it been be imperative as now to encourage the production of…

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War and Wool Substitutes May Gain Ground

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 7

WAR-TIME conditions produce [?] problems in all countries, but particularly for those nations engaged in hostilities who…

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Commercial. War and Wool. Possible Trade Changes

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 27

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: — War-time conditions produce trading problems in all countries, but particularly for those nations engaged in…

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Opinions Vary Merits of Fixed Wool Price

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 7

SHARP division of opinion on the merits of the British wool purchase scheme was evident at a meeting of Quirin[?] branch of the…

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Not Handicapped Wool Research Continues, Despite War

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 7

AN assurance that the war has not handicapped the International Wool Secretariat's research programme in British laboratories or…

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Weather-damaged Wheat. Question of Suitability for Seed

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 38

Excessive rain when wheat crops are ripening or ripe often lead to certain defects in the grain. These defects might he described as stages of the one…

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£25,000,000 Wool Cheque MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 7

First result of the sale of Australia's entire wool clip to Britain is a cheque for £25,299,147…

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£75,000,000 CHEQUE Year's Record Wool Clip

The Sun · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 5

The secretary of the Graziers Association of N.S.W., Mr. J. Hewins, to-day estimated that proceeds…

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