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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

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Timber Supplied on Wheat Receipts

Barrier Miner · Monday 1 January 1917 · page 3

Messrs. Reid Bros., Ltd., timber merchants, of Flinders-street, Adelaide, beg to notify farmers that they are prepared to accept wheat receipts as…

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Timber Supplied on Wheat [?]

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 3

Messrs. Reid Bros., Ltd, timber merchants, of Flinders-street Adelaide [?] to notify farmers that they are prepared to accept wheat receipt as…

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Timber Supplied on Wheat Receipts

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 3

Messrs. Reid. Bros., Ltd., timber merchants, of Flinders-street, Adelaide, beg to notify farmers that they are prepared to accept wheat receipts as…

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West Australian Deat[?]s. Farmer Commits Suicide. Perth

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 4

At Katanning a farmer named David Evan Williams, who has four sons at the front, committed suicide on Saturday. He was wheat stripping in the…

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Timber Supplied on Wheat Receipts

Barrier Miner · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 3

Messrs. Reid Bros., Ltd., timber merchants, of Flinders-street, Adelaide, [?] to notify farmers that they are prepared to accept wheat r[?] as…

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New Year's Wheat Crop. Mr. Hughes and the Farmers' Threat. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

The Prime Minister (Mr. W. M. Hughes) stated yesterday that if the wheat farmers carried out their threat to plant less wheat next year they…

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Timber Supplied on Wheat Receipts

Barrier Miner · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 3

Messrs. Reid Br[?]., L[?]d., timber merchants, of F[?]ders-street, Adelaide[?] beg to notify farmers that they are prepared to accept wheat receipts as…

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Timber Supplied on Wheat Receipts

Barrier Miner · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 5

Messrs. Reid Bros., Ltd., timber merchants, of Flinders-street, Adelaida, beg to notify farmers that they are prepared to accept wheat receipts as…

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Timber Supplied on Wheat Receipts

Barrier Miner · Monday 8 January 1917 · page 3

Messrs. Reid Brost, Ltd., timber merchants, of Flinders-street, Adelaide, beg to notify farmers that they are prepared to accept wheat receipts as…

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American Corn and Wheat Rates. (Reuter's Message.) New York

Barrier Miner · Monday 8 January 1917 · page 2

On the Chicago wheat exchange May options for corn (maize) is a dollar a bushel, the highest in 20 years. Wheat fe up three cents, to the…

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Timber Supplied on Wheat Receipts

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 January 1917 · page 3

Messrs. Reid Bros., Ltd., timber merchants, of Flinders-street, Adelaide, beg to notify farmers that they are prepared to accept wheat receipts as…

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Butter Factory Burnt. Stock Withheld From Market Destroyed. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 January 1917 · page 2

The Great Southern Co-operative Company's butter factory at Foster was burnt down yesterday. Over £1000 worth of butter, as well…

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State Wheat Markets. West Australian Millers' Output. Perth

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 January 1917 · page 4

In response to an inquiry, the manager of the State wheat marketing scheme has informed the Australian Wheat Board that local millers are…

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A Colonist for Eighty Years. Death of an Old Settler. Digger, Storekeeper, Farmer and Publican

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 January 1917 · page 4

The Millicent correspondent of "The Advertiser," writing on January 5, states:— The few men remaining of those who…

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Timber Supplied on Wheat Receipts

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 3

Messrs. Reid Bros., Ltd., timber merchants, of Flinders-street, Adelaide, bes to notify farmers that they are prepared to accept wheat receipts as…

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Wool Stocks Requisitioned. ("The Times" Message.) London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 2

The British army authorities have requisitioned all home-grown wool stocks…

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Increased Price of Wheat. (Reuter's Message.) New York

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 2

The cash price of wheat on the Chicago Exchange has risen to 8/4 per bushel…

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Timber Supplied on Wheat Receipts

Barrier Miner · Thursday 11 January 1917 · page 3

Messrs. Reid Bros., Ltd., timber merchants, of Flinders-street, Adelaide, beg to notify farmers that they are prepared to accept wheat receipts as…

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The Farm Laborer's Demand. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 12 January 1917 · page 2

The farming labor shortage in New South Wales, is declared by the Railway Workers' Union secretary (Mr. Bodkin) to be exaggerated…

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Wheat Lumpers' Strike. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 6

The wheat [?]mpers at Old Junee (near Wagga) have gone on strike for 7/ per hundred. They were getting 6/6…

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