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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 11, 1928
Page
3
NSW producers rally behind the Amended Marketing Act amid calls for broader benefits to the industry. Queensland prices and interstate trade are cited to argue for wider market security, while the Miranda Co-operative Society reports strong mid year gains and dividend prospects amid cautious optimism.
In Tasmania a drive to unify dairying through cooperative butter factories takes shape with the reform of Sir Noritt Western Co operative Oats Company Limited and Emu Bay Co op Butter Company. Proposals include absorbing the Tiiversone Butter Factory into the new group as a single state wide dairy controller. Meanwhile a death at Hopewood House Darling Point is attributed to sedative overdose. A court awarded T D Match 3590 damages in a libel case against Beckett's Budget.
In Sydney on Monday 2260 cattle yarded as quality fell short of ideal. Heavy descriptions were only moderately represented while lighter sorts showed well. A full attendance of buyers and spirited competition marked the sale. Prices firmed late with higher tendency. heavy goods ranged 40s to 30s, prime light 38s to 40s, prime heavy 33s to 38s, good trade 34s to 37s, best cow beef 35s to 27s per 400 lb.
About 950 cattle yarded with many heavy bullocks and prime steers, cows and vealers in shorter supply. Dealers paid 15 to 20 shillings for good cattle. prime heavy bullocks sold to 40 pounds 15 shillings. Pigs saw about 400 penned with baconers scarce. best heavy baconers to 14 pounds 18 shillings and West baconers to 9 pounds 6 shillings.
A private firm negotiating with the State Government on a new industry in Newcastle. Assistant Treasurer Stevens noted the planned plant would need about 600,000 tons of coal annually and could lower coal prices, with no concrete details available yet. An aerial duel near Coraki saw a plover fatally strike a hawk after a prolonged attack, ending in the hawk tumbling into a swamp. Last year’s British rail deaths numbered 36. London first to light streets by gas. In early year, 477 foreigners were refused landing in Britain, including 66 Germans or Scandinavians and 42 Poles. 26 French and 44 Russians. Storks in Holland, valued for sanitation, are decreasing due to poisoning from tainted food during wintering in South Africa.
Fragmentary text notes British visitors to France spending sizable sums annually and hints at exchange or defense rate discussions. Names and clear facts are missing, leaving an unclear report of travel or economic figures.
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