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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1944

1,288 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 20 of 65

Wool Report

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 20 April 1944 · page 15

The Country Producers' Selling Co. report:— The autumn shorn clips from the north-western districts are opening up quite…

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Manpower and Small Sheep Holdings

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 20 April 1944 · page 2

An important new regulation has been issued by the Manpower authorities in connection with the shearing of sheep on the smaller holdings…

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Women Learn Wool Classing

National Advocate · Thursday 20 April 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Together with four country women, eight women employees of a city wool firm are attending wool classing…

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Wool Substitutes Prohibition of Words SYDNEY

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 20 April 1944 · page 1

Mr. Scully, Minister for Commerce, has announced important decisions to protect the Australian wool industry, and…

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No Substitute for Wool Canberra, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 20 April 1944 · page 2

Legislation submitted by the Commonwealth for adoption by all States contains drastic measures aimed at preventing deception in the sale of…

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SMALLER U.S. CLIP Wool Control Benefits

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 20 April 1944 · page 15

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: The quantity of wool shorn in the United States during 1943 was about 4 per cent less than in 1942,…

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Australian Wool Consumption

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1944 · page 4

Prier to the war the Australian mills consumed About 240,000 bales of wool annually or 8 per cent of her yearly clip. The textiles made were all used…

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Synthetic Fibres Not To be Labelled Wool

National Advocate · Friday 21 April 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: It is expected that the State Ministers for Agriculture will prepare legislation for the proper labelling of textiles offered for sale…

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Subsidy Plan for Dairy Farmers

National Advocate · Friday 21 April 1944 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thursday: Dairy farmers are to be paid a sub[?]ids of [?]d a lb for butter while Cabinet works out a new day of distributing financial…

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Farmers Must Not Strike in War-time F.s.a. President's Letter

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1944 · page 11

Fellow Members,—I greatly admire the fighting spirit of the correspondent in the recent issue of "The Land" who advocated direct action to obtain…

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Food Problems Farm Machinery Held Up

National Advocate · Friday 21 April 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: Commenting to-day on food production problems, Mr. I. P. Abbott, M.H.R., said that on the lower Hunter River during the…

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Wool Report

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 24 April 1944 · page 4

Pitt, Son and Badgery, (Ltd., report: Although the British wool user has been hard hit during the war by restrictions found necessary…

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Sheep Mortality Poisoning Suspected

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 24 April 1944 · page 5

Some owners of grazing properties are reported to be getting alarmed at the mortality among their sheep caused by unauthorised…

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SHORTAGES Sheep Men Badly Hit

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 24 April 1944 · page 7

Mr. H. R. Cowdrey, president of the Graziers' Association, explains that the sheep. owners are being badly hit by…

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Booked As Cattle Racehorses Reach Adelaide SYDNEY

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 24 April 1944 · page 1

Last week great interest was aroused by the fact that despite the ban on the carriage of horses from one State to…

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WHEW! Shearing Record One Sheep Every 77 Seconds

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 24 April 1944 · page 7

Listen to this, you shed ringers: "If any of your servicemen want to settle any arguments, you'd better jot down the facts of this…

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All Wool Branding a First Necessity

National Advocate · Wednesday 26 April 1944 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: If the Australian Government's proposals are realised for the branding of goods to denote the genuine "all…

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Australian Wool Consumption Population and Prices

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 27 April 1944 · page 15

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:—Prior to the war the Australian mills consumed about 1240,000 bales of wool annually…

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