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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1926

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Port Adelaide Strikes Settlement Is Reached of Wool Storemen's Trouble Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Saturday 13 November 1926 · page 1

The wool store employees at Port Adelaide, who have been on strike for nearly a fortnight, will return to work on Monday…

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Farmer's Sudden Illness Police Still Inquiring Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Saturday 13 November 1926 · page 8

Detective M'Mabon, of Adelaide, left to-day for port Broughton to assist in the investigations into the sudden illness of Mr. Stanley Evans, a…

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BODY lS Recovered of Missing Farmer One Leg Missing Mullumbimby

Barrier Miner · Saturday 13 November 1926 · page 8

The body of George Harvey, a young farmer who had been missing from his home for two months, was discovered by two aborigines about four miles from…

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Adelaide Wool Sale

Barrier Miner · Monday 15 November 1926 · page 1

Dalgety and Co. have been advised that the wool storemen at Port Adelaide resumed work today. Owing to the industrial disturbance the…

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Motor Lorry Hits Bridge a Wool Presser Killed. Cloncurry (Qld.)

Barrier Miner · Monday 15 November 1926 · page 1

George Hollingsworth, a wool pressen, was killed when the motor truck on which he and six other persons were travelling crashed into a bridge…

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Port Adelaide Strikes Wool Storemen Resume. Timber Stackers Still Out. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 15 November 1926 · page 1

A more hopeful feeling among workers and business people at Port Adelaide, which has lately been disturbed by a series of small strikes, was evident…

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Queensland Drought Heavy Losses of Sheep Brisbane

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 November 1926 · page 4

Notwithstanding the recent heavy rains drought is still being experienced over the greater part of Queensland. In many instances whole flocks of…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 November 1926 · page 4

Dalgety and Company offered 5000 bales of wool at the Sydney sales on Monday when there was good general competition resulting in full…

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Drought in Queensland Sheep Flocks Wiped Out

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 November 1926 · page 4

Hopes entertained in September, following some heavy thunderstorms, that the drought would be broken were premature (says a Brisbane message in…

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A Drover's Troubles Three-cornered Jacks Cripple Mob of Sheep

Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 November 1926 · page 2

Comparisons between the easiness of respective jobs made it "Miner" reporter to-day ask a drover what was wrong. In typical bush language the…

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Farmer's Estate Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 November 1926 · page 4

The estate of Charles Edward Bar ratt. a sheep farmer of Mallira Station, Wentworth has been valued for probate purposes at £48,700. The…

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Stains From Wool a Chemist's Discovery Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 23 November 1926 · page 4

A Dunedin (N.Z.) chemist claims to have discovered a method for removing the branding stains from wool. The manager of a leading wool agency…

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Freezing Works Trouble. Farmers Enrolling Labor

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 24 November 1926 · page 1

Wellington (N.Z.), November 23. Trouble with the freezing workers is spreading. The Farmers' Union is enrolling labor to man the works on…

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West Darling Wool Clip

Barrier Miner · Thursday 25 November 1926 · page 2

Mr. Arthur Crossing, president of the Pastoralists' Association of West Darling, said to-day that the [?]p from the western district this year…

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Geelong Wool Sales

Barrier Miner · Friday 26 November 1926 · page 2

Dalgety and Co. report having offered 6500 bales of wool at the Geelong sales on Wednesday, 9o per cent, of the catalogue being sold. There was…

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Farm Agents Act Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 27 November 1926 · page 2

A proclamation appeared in the "Government Gazette" yesterday announcing that the Farm Produce Agents Act of 1926. which provides for the…

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Farm Agents Act Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 27 November 1926 · page 1

A proclamation appeared in the Government Gazette" yesterday announceing that the Farm produce Agents Act of 1926. which provides for the…

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Adelaide Butter Prices Increase Reported Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 November 1926 · page 1

Following on the rise of ld. a lb. yesterday a further increase of 2d. a lb. for the choicest butter was made to-day. The sharp rise in price is…

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Cattle Poisoned 50 Die at Water Hole Toowoomba

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 November 1926 · page 1

Fifty cattle died at a watering place in the Roma, district. Investigations revealed that the water had been poisoned, presumably with arsenic…

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Cattle Sale

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 December 1926 · page 1

Bennett and Fisher Ltd. report having on Monday disposed of 120 head of exceptionally good mixed cattle on account of Mr. J. Dempster, of…

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