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

Farming & the land, 1950

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Petrol, Butter and Tea Rationing May Go

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 2

Political observers expect the Prime. Minister (Mr. Menzies) to announce With in the next fortnight the end of butter and tea rationing in Australia…

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Engineers Working Round The Clock At Mudgee Butter Factory; Ice As Soon As Possible

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 1

Engineers at the Mudgee Butter Factory are working around the clock to put the ice-making machine back in action at the earliest possible moment. With ice deliveries only made…

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No Dollars Glut in U.s.a. Farm Products

National Advocate · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 2

NEW YORK, Sunday: The American Government plans to give away huge quantities of surplus farm products that have been stored in the…

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Big Wheat Loads Compared

National Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 1

FORBES, Monday: A record load of between 24 and 25 tons of wheat moved by a carrier at Manilla in northern N.S.W. is well below the…

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Wool Prices Break Records

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--Australia's wool cheque for this year is expected to establish a new record…

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Federal Officials Against "Free" Tea and Butter

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 1

CANBERRA, Monday.--Cheaper tea from Indonesia may help to settle a difference of opinion between Ministers and senior…

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Treasury Not Approached Lifting Of Butter, Tea Rationing

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.— The Federal Treasurer, Mr. Fedder said today that the Treasury hade not been approached to deal with…

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Sydney Wool Sales Prices Rise Again

National Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday: Wool sales opened in Sydney today with value for all descriptions ranging from 10 to 15 per cent above the closing…

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£250,000 DAMAGE Vic. Wool Store Blaze

National Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday: A fire which broke out in a wool store at Brooklyn tonight is estimated to have caused £250,000 damage…

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Apple Crop Hit By Spot Disease

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 1

Black Spot disease in apples is causing serious concern among growers in the Orange district, and…

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Big Wool Cheque

National Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Australia's wool cheque this year is expected to total more than £200 million—a record for the Commonwealth…

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Butter Factory to Close Swift's Decision

The Lyndhurst Shire Chronicle · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 1

The butter factory at Swift Australian Company's works at Blayney will be closed down at the end of March…

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Wool Use Expanding Bright Prospects

National Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:—The world's demand for goods made from wool shows no sign of slackening Up to recently the shortage…

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Another Rise in Wool Blayney Record

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.— Prices of wool in some instances at the sales today showed a further advance…

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Sydney Wool Sale Record for Blayney Clip

National Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Buyers at today's Sydney wool sales paid the record price of [?]d for comeback wool branded WE BLA Blayney…

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Britain to Buy, Sugar Crop

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.— Britain has offered to pay Commonwealth, sugar producers 12 per cent, more for their 1950 sugar crop than the…

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Huge Wool Prices

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, This Afternoon.-- Current record prices; lit Australian wool are being secured despite the increased offerings as…

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Spain Seeks Wheat Overseas Purchases

National Advocate · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday: Spain must have some 300,000 tons of wheat before June to maintain the present bread ration, it is estimated in…

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Spain Seeks Wheat From Russia

Central Western Daily · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday.—Spain is negotiating a trade pact with Russia to get urgently needed wheat and petrol, according to the semi - official Paris newspaper, Le Monde…

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New Wool Record 25 P.C. Rise This Week SYDNEY

National Advocate · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 3

Wool values reached unprecedented heights today when the Sydney sales continued. Fleece wools and skirtings moved up another 5 per cent…

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