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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1948

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Example Of Efficiency As Mixed Farmer

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 January 1948 · page 3

AN outstanding example of a virile, moder, and efficient Australian farmer is 39-year old Mr. J. D. McC[?]ntock, of…

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Crop Record Despite Rain

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 January 1948 · page 9

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) said in Wagga last night that, despite recent rains, the…

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Butter Before Guns In Poland

Tribune · Saturday 3 January 1948 · page 2

WARSAW — The Premier, M. Jozef Cyrankiewicz, told the Polish Parliament that more than 50 per cent, of the 1948 Budget…

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Heavy Rains Threaten Wheat Yield

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 January 1948 · page 2

Widespread rains over a large area of New South Wales are again threatening the record wheat yield,…

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Rain On The Western Wheat Slopes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 January 1948 · page 5

CARTING the wheat from the stripped paddocks to the silos, in what began as the wettest harvesting season known since…

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Palm Beach Guide The Sheep And The Goats

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 January 1948 · page 9

Palm Beach, according to the social columnists, is where Sydney's smart set read each other's private lives in the social columns and wear bathing suits to avoid photographers…

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Rains Delay, Spoil Harvesting Standing Crops Badly Damaged

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 January 1948 · page 6

Rain during the New Year holidays has again delayed the wheat harvest and reduced the yield wheat experts said last night…

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Youth charged with shooting father on farm BRISBANE

The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1948 · page 3

A 15-YEARS-OLD youth was charged at Landsborough Court tonight with having attempted to kill his father at Conondale today. The father Ernest Edward Portch, 52, a farmer, survived a…

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Wheat Quotations Overseas. Friday. January 2

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 2

(Overseas and Sydney wheat quotations by the State Marketing Bureau.) Values elsewhere than in Sydney are expressed in English currency…

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£50 Fine Over "Bread and Butter" Land Deal

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 3

Leonard Francis Walter, Howard St., Strathfield, was fined £50 today in the Special Federal Court over a proposed land deal. WALTER, employed by Sheahan and Co., real estate…

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£50 Fine Over "Bread and Butter" Land Deal

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 3

Leonard Francis Walter, Howard St., Strathfield, was fined £50 today in the Special Federal Court over a proposed land deal. WALTER, employed by Sheahan and Co., real estate…

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£50 Fine Over "Bread and Butter" Land Deal

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 3

Leonard Francis Walter, Howard St., Strathfield, was fined £50 today in the Special Federal Court over a proposed land deal. WALTER, employed by Sheahan and Co., real estate…

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£50 Fine Over "Bread and Butter" Land Deal

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 3

Leonard Francis Walter, Howard St., Strathfield, was fined £50 today in the Special Federal Court over a proposed land deal. WALTER, employed by Sheahan and Co., real estate…

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£50 Fine Over "Bread and Butter" Land Deal

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 3

Leonard Francis Walter, Howard St., Strathfield, was fined £50 today in the Special Federal Court over a proposed land deal. WALTER, employed by Sheahan and Co., real estate…

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"Bread, butter" land deal Didn't Call It Blackmarket

The Sun · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 3

"We don't call it that; we call it bread and butter," was the reply stated to have been…

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Farmer Dies From Gunshot

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 3

BRISBANE, Monday--Ernest Edward Portch (52), Conondale dairy farmer, who was shot on his property on…

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Farmer Dies From Gunshot

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 3

BRISBANE, Monday.--Ernest Edward Portch (52), Conondale dairy farmer, who was shot on his property on…

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Cattle Close Firm

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 January 1948 · page 14

At the cattle sales yesterday supplies fell to 1519. The market opened stronger and closed firm. Sheep supplies were light at 15.423…

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Low Quality Wheat Half Crop May Suffer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1948 · page 3

Nearly half the wheat harvest in New South Wales may be below fair average quality…

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Classers of Wool Seek Rise

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 6 January 1948 · page 2

Wool-classers had to work under heartbreaking circumstances during the war, and the importance…

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