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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1943

5,331 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 250

Land Girls Harvest Crop

The Sun · Thursday 7 January 1943 · page 6

Land Army girls from all States of Australia are doing a magnificent war job in helping to harvest the cotton crop in…

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Farmer Set Trap For Agent

The Sun · Thursday 7 January 1943 · page 3

An agent was fined £30 at the Central Summons Court today as a result of a trap set by a suspicious…

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Farmer Cuts Off Hand And Then Cuts Throat

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 January 1943 · page 4

WELLINGTON, Thursday.-- Peter Emerson (41), married, cut off his left hand on a chopping block, where it was found at his farm near Masterton, then went to the bathroom in the house, cut his throat…

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Farmer Cuts Off Hand And Then Cuts Throat

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 January 1943 · page 6

WELLINGTON, Thursday.-- Peter Emerson (41), married, cut off his left hand on a chopping block, where it was found at his farm near Masterton, then went to the bathroom in the house, cut his throat…

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Farmer Cuts Off Hand And Then Cuts Throat

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 January 1943 · page 6

WELLINGTON, Thursday.-- Peter Emerson (41), married, cut off his left hand on a chopping block, where it was found at his farm near Masterton, then went to the bathroom in the house, cut his throat…

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Farmer Cuts Off Hand And Then Cuts Throat

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 January 1943 · page 4

WELLINGTON, Thursday.-- Peter Emerson (41), married, cut off his left hand on a chopping block, where it was found at his farm near Masterton, then went to the bathroom in the house, cut his throat…

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Farmer Cuts Off Hand And Then Cuts Throat

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 January 1943 · page 6

WELLINGTON, Thursday.-- Peter Emerson (41), married, cut off his left hand on a chopping block, where it was found at his farm near Masterton, then went to the bathroom in the house, cut his throat…

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Farmer Cuts Off Hand And Then Cuts Throat

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 January 1943 · page 6

WELLINGTON, Thursday.-- Peter Emerson (41), married, cut off his left hand on a chopping block, where it was found at his farm near Masterton, then went to the bathroom in the house, cut his throat…

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Stripping Crop of Boomey Wheat

The Land · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 1

A fine crop of Boomey wheat being harvested this season by Mr. I. Maynard of "Willydah," Narromine. Mr. Maynard and his sharefarmer, Mr. J. Cross, have delivered Boomey wheat going 67¾lb. to the bushel out of the bag to the Mungeribar silos this season…

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Queensland and Wheat Restrictions

The Land · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 7

Sir,—The restriction of areas and control of wheat production has caused a very difficult position for Queensland, accentuated by an…

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Wheat Crop Harvested This Season Under Difficulties Much Damage by Heavy Rain

The Land · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 2

A MOST difficult wheat harvesting season is now drawing to a close in many New South Wales districts. Some of the problems of harvesting and transport, however, were considerably eased by the co-operation of farmers and local townsmen and the work of war…

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"Going Out of Wheat Production"

The Land · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 3

"IT will be unnecessary for the Government to issue licences to grow wheat in the coming season, as many growers in the…

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Under F.A.Q. Wheat

The Land · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 9

"Wheatgrower": Can wheat that has been rejected at a silo as not being f.a.q. be sold privately without reference to the Australian Wheat…

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Huge Wool Reserve in America

The Land · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 1

THE policy of building up strategic reserve stocks of wool in the United States for the use of both Britain and the…

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Payment For Wheat Many Will Have To Wait Until March

The Land · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 2

A STATEMENT was made [?] week by the Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) to the effect that the majority of wheatgrowers will…

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N.S.W. Wheat Quotations New South Wales. SYDNEY, January 7th

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 1

Rates fixed by the Australian Wheat Board are as follows: Millers' lots: All prices for export of all wheat for human consumption…

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ON and Off the Farm Seeks Alps Retreat to Write of Darwin

The Land · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 5

Mrs. C. L. A. Abbott, wife of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, has now returned to Alice Springs after spending six months…

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Where Everyone Works & No One Is Paid; How Jewish Farm Settlements Are Run

The Land · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 4

WE picked up an interpreter at Tiberias, and we skirted the Sea of Galilee, crossed the River Jordan, and passed into what was really…

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The Land "Nations may battle and the world rock with revolution, but the land will care for him who cares for it." Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Official Organ of the Farmers and Settlers' Association of New South Wales. Subscription Rates: One year, in advance, 12/6; two years, in advance, 23/-; three years, in advance, 34/-. Subscription to "The Land" includes the "Farm and Station Annual," Single Copy, "The Land," 3d.; single copy, "Farm and Station Annual," 2/-. Contributions are invited and will be paid for on publication. No responsibility can be accepted for the return of manuscript, but when stamp is enclosed every effort will be made to ensure return" of unsuitable matter. Cheques, money orders, etc., should be made payable to The Land Newspaper Ltd. Address business communications to the Manager, and literary contributions to the Editor, "The Land," Box 1558E, G.P.O., Sydney, New South Wales. Board of Directors: Hon. W. C. Cambridge M.L.C., General Secretary, Farmers and Settlers' Association of N.S.W. (Chairman); Hon. H. S. Henley, M.L.C.; E. Field (Vice-President, Farmers and Settlers' Association); H K Nock; and A. Heath. Managing Editor: Associate Editor: H. V. Budd. A. G. Hudson. Advertising Manager: E. W. Carter. 57-59 Recent Street, Sydney. Telephones: M 6971. Telegrams: (3 lines). "The Land," Sydney. Friday, January 8, 1943 A Blot on Our Honor to be Removed

The Land · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 4

THE decision of the Federal A.L.P. executive in favor of extending militia service to an undefined area of the South-West Pacific will, no doubt, in due course, be duplicated by the Federal…

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Who Is to Plan Post War Farming? Latest Federal Move Leaves Producers Bewildered

The Land · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 1

PLANS announced from time to time by the Federal Government for the organisation of primary industries during the war and in the post-war reconstruction period have bewildered Australian farmers…

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