The Victorian f.a.q. standard for wheat for 1935-36 was fixed yesterday at 63½lb, to the Imperial bushel—the highest weight for 42 years. This is equal to the record established in 1893-94. Declaring the result, the chairman of the corn trade sectional ...
Article : 760 words—The weight of an Imperial bushel of "fair average quality" Victorian wheat of the 1935-36 season was fixed at 63½lb. at the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce yesterday. The Schopper one-litre scale was used for the first time to obviate the weighing of a full bushel. The chairman of the Victorian Millowners' Association (Mr. J. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 82 wordsHOBART, Friday.—"I have a clear conscience. I did nothing underhand, and nothing that has not been done by other boats," said Mr. W. P. Batt, helmsman ...
Article : 241 wordsA substantial decrease in the amount of butter shipped from Australia to Britain in the period July 1 to February 8, compared with the corresponding period last ...
Article : 443 wordsAt a special meeting of the Bendigo Agricultural Society on Friday, a discussion took place on the services and storage of the Coliban system, and it was decided ...
Article : 420 wordsHOBART, Friday.—Jack Anderson, also known as Patrick Brady, was repeatedly admonished by Mr. Justice Clark, in the Criminal Court to-day, for disregarding ...
Article : 256 wordsArising out of a fatal accident which occurred on the Geelong road on the night of October 31, when Mrs. Daphne Matthews, of Mount Clear, a cyclist, was ...
Article : 659 wordsRepresentatives of shire councils conferred with the Farmers' Debts Adjustment Board yesterday, and discussed the Farmers' Debts Adjustment Act. the ...
Article : 349 wordsOUYEN, Friday.—Supporting the proposal to hold another Mallee farmers' convention at Ouyen to survey farming practices, Mr. C. Black declared at a public ...
Article : 238 wordsThe annual reunion parade of the Geelong Old Artillerymen's Association, which will be held at Queenscliff on Saturday. February 22, promises to be the largest ...
Article : 400 wordsPERTH, Friday.—Menaced by a bull at a lonely farm house, three miles from Cranbrook, 274 miles south of Perth, an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Sewell, ...
Article : 171 wordsA special grant will be made to the Geelong City Council from the rivers and dreams fund to enable the Barwon River, Geelong, to be prepared for the Head of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 333 wordsAn elderly man, whose identity had not been established late last night, had the base of his skull fractured when he was struck by a motor-car at the corner of ...
Article : 125 wordsMr. R. Murphy, of the teaching staff of the State elementary school, has been granted a [?]dentship at the Teachers' Training College. Before be left the school he was given a ...
Article : 111 wordsFound beneath a palm tree in Beaconsfield parade, St. Kilda, at 9.30 a.m. yesterday, a girl, aged about 10 days, was taken to the Berry Street Foundling Home ...
Article : 73 wordsLiverpool futures are quoted:—May 6/0[?], July 6/2 5-16. ...
Article : 16 wordsBefore Mr. D. G. Blair, P.M., at the Willaura ([?]urt. H. J. Fitzsimmons, licensee of the [?]ura Hotel, was fined £5 for having had the bar door unlocked on January 1 and £1 ...
Article : 1,842 wordsTRAFALGAR, Friday.—At the annual meeting of the Trafalgar Meadows Drainage Trust the chairman (Mr. W. T. Smallacombe) said that tenders were ...
Article : 276 wordsSir,—Yours correspondent, Mr. A. M. G. Thom, is rather severe in his strictures on the Country Roads Board for not supplying this corner of the State with better ...
Article : 492 wordsFollowing is the record of eggs to February 9 in the twenty-fifth egg-laying competition conducted at Burnley, begun April 1, 1935, concluding March 1:—Section A.—Teams of Six Birds— ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 326 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Australia will maintain her total exports of beef during the first half of 1936 at 574,000cwt.—the same level as that for the corresponding ...
Article : 211 wordsAPOLLO BAY.—Mr. Patten, formerly of Lake Boga, has been appointed home missioner in charge of the Apollo Bay district.—Before she left Apollo Bay Sister Watson, who has been ...
Article : 1,331 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The Court of Criminal Appeal to-day granted a new trial to Victor Marshall Pomfret, aged 38 years, labourer, who was convicted at the ...
Article : 104 wordsA tender has been accepted by the Public Works Department for the erection of a brick school building and clinic at Travancore Special School, Flemington. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 15 Feb 1936, Page 21
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