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Farming & the land, 1948

5,907 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 250

Rich Hand-Out To Wheat Firms But Growers Pay

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 10 January 1948 · page 5

Everyone knows about the disastrous wheat deal made with the New Zealand Government, but few people know that large wheat-dealing firms are allowed to batten on wheat growers. With…

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Came Cropper in Hurdle

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1948 · page 12

MELBOURNE. Saturday.—A sensational fall in front of the stand marked the Benefit Hurdle at Moonee Valley…

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Heads will roll on the farms

The Sun · Sunday 11 January 1948 · page 7

The bone was pointed at 60 million barnyard drones by America's Poultry Co-ordinating…

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Southern crop of blue-ribbon seats

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 January 1948 · page 20

DOWN south there's a potential crop of vacancies in four blue-ribbon Federal Labor seats--and a swarm of "tetchy" aspirants. Any of these electorates…

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Sheep Work

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 2

Sir,—I was amused to read an item headed, "Grazier Will Watch His Flocks From the Air." He certainly could get a bird's-eye…

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Wool deal alleged

The Sun · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 2

A furrier had arranged to buy £1000 worth of wool from a motor driver in a hotel, it was stated in Central Court…

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U.s. Wheat Stocks

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 8

WASHING TON, Sunday (A.A.P.).--The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates the stocks of wheat on farms on…

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Butter Sent to Italy Children's Fund

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 4

The first shipment of food from Australia to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund left[?]…

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Seven years to restore cherry crop

The Sun · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 7

It will be seven years before Young cherry crops return to normal, following destruction of trees by droughts…

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Convicts Help Fight Prison Farm Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 1

LINCOLN (Nebraska), Monday. -- Prisoners and prison officials co-operated to control a fire which swept through part…

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Bob Dyer's Dairy

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 6

It's about time somebody simplified income tax blanks so everybody, including Mr. Chifley,…

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Wool at 105½d

The Sun · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 1

Keen competition from United States and Continental buyers boosted prices at today's wool sales. A parcel of…

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Higher Wool Sale Prices

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 9

Prices at yesterday's wool sales were 5 per cent to 7½ per cent. higher than December values…

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U.S. Buying Wool Keen Demand At Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 5

United States buyers took part in keen general competition for wool, when Sydney auctions…

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Trade, Finance, and Produce Markets 7½ p.c. Rise for Wool

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 14

Best spinners' wools were occasionally 5 p.c. higher at yesterday's Sydney auctions…

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Suspended Penalty for Farming Fraud

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 3

PLEADING guilty to a charge of having falsely pretended that he sowed wheat and oats in 1945, and having thereby…

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Suspended Penalty for Farming Fraud

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 3

PLEADING guilty to a charge of having falsely pretended that he sowed wheat and oats In 1945, and having thereby…

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Suspended Penalty for Farming Fraud

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 3

PLEADING guilty to a charge of having falsely pretended that he sowed wheat and oats in 1945, and having thereby…

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Suspended Penalty for Farming Fraud

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 5

PLEADING guilty to a charge of having falsely pretended that he sowed wheat and oats in 1945, and having thereby…

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Suspended Penalty for Farming Fraud

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 3

PLEADING guilty to a charge of having falsely pretended that he sowed wheat and oats in 1945, and having thereby…

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