At the quarterly meeting of the Maitland Pastures Protection Board, the chair was occupied by the chairman (Mr. G. S. Waller). There were also present—Messrs. ...
Article : 859 wordsThe monthly meeting of the committee of the Maitland and District Chamber of Commerce was held in the committee room, Town Hall, on Thursday evening. The ...
Article : 712 wordsNew methods, of road-making are rapidly supplanting antiquated conditions of working. Scientific measures are being widely adopted, consequently many local authorities are ...
Article : 1,197 wordsThe aim of the wheat-grower in districts of limited rainfall should be to collect and conserve in the soil as much as possible of the rain that falls throughout the year, ...
Article : 805 wordsThe recommendations of the Department on the subject of varieties of wheat and other cereals which should be grown in different districts for different purposes will ...
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Article : 366 wordsNo. 75 of the Department's series of Farmers' Bulletins is now available in sufficient numbers to permit of general circulation, and any farmer who is interested in ...
Article : 383 wordsStock-inspector Cotton reported specially to the Maitland Pastures Protection Board's quarterly meeting on the rabbit pest. He reported having visited various ...
Article : 213 wordsBefore the present decade has expired there will not be a hamlet or village which cannot point to its picture palace. It has been maintained that a small isolated ...
Article : 306 wordsThe exhaustion of the first 4000 copies of the Farmers' Calendar has led the Department to issue a third edition, and this is now available for circulation. It is ...
Article : 145 words"The continuance of dry conditions should turn the thoughts of potato-growers to the subject of surface cultivation with the object of saving all the moisture possible. ...
Article : 452 wordsSeven rules for the prevention of bad flavours in milk and cream are given in a newly issued book by Mr. G. Sutherland Thomsen, who was at one time dairy ...
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Article : 214 wordsAt Harrow, Chandos Leigh as a small boy was mercilessly bullied. From eight o'clock in the evening till eleven at night his room was visited by a lot of big boys ...
Article : 190 wordsThe women of Haverfordwest—worthy descendants of those brave Pembrokeshire women, who used their red cloaks with such success in repelling the attempted French ...
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1931), Sat 7 Feb 1914, Page 13
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