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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

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Wool Sales Firm Sydney Market Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 14 October 1931 · page 2

The sales of wool to-day, including private, transactions, amounted to 12,956 bales. The average price for wool sold in Sydney last week was £10…

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Cattle Sales Values Slightly Lower in the Adelaide Market Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 14 October 1931 · page 1

The yarding of cattle at the Abattoirs sales yesterday was greater than was indicated by the number of trucks ordered, and thw actual supply of beef…

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New Season's Wool Port Bowen the First Ship to Arrive in Europe Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 October 1931 · page 4

A cable message was received to-day advising the arrival of the steamer Port Bowen in Dunkirk, the voyage from Sydney having occupied…

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Farm Hand Assaulted Robbed of £103 and Left Lying on Main Road Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 October 1931 · page 4

Stopping to help three men who hailed him from another car, Herbert Kaesler (26), a farm laborer, of Weetulta, was attacked near Tanunda last…

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The Wool Sales Season's Record Made with 17½D a Pound

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 October 1931 · page 6

At the wool sales to-day the season's record for wool was made when France Paid 17½d. for greasy merino. This price was paid after an exciting bidding…

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Unemployed in Brazil Back to the Farm Movement

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 October 1931 · page 5

The problem of relief for the unemployed in San Paulo, the greatest industrial centre of Brazil, is being solved by a back to the farm movement…

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Farm Laborer Wounded While Shooting Foxes Lismore

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 October 1931 · page 1

John Stevenson (22), a farm laborer, was shooting fying foxes with two other men at Jiggi, in the Lismere district, when his gun…

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Adelaide Cattle Sale

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 October 1931 · page 2

In connection with the cattle sale In Adelaide yesterday Dalgety and Co. received a telegram, that 850 cattle were offered Cor auction. The values…

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Wheat Export Bounty Not to Exceed 60. a Bushel Bill to Be Introduced Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 October 1931 · page 1

It is definitely stated that legislation providing for the payment of an export bounty, not exceeding 6d. a bushel of the 1931-32 wheat crop will be…

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London Wool Letter

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 21 October 1931 · page 3

Mr. Walter P. Devereux, the official representative in Europe of the Austra]ian Woolgrowers' Council, writes from London under date of September 17 as…

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N.S.W. Wheat Crop 50,000,000 Bushels Is Peeliminary Estimate Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 21 October 1931 · page 4

The forecast at October 9 of the current season's yield of wheat in New South Wales is 50,000,000 bushels. This is the preliminary estimate. A…

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District Wool Clip Sent Down the River

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 21 October 1931 · page 2

Owing to the River Darling being navigable for such a lengthy period the Sydney railway and the Silverton Tramway Company have lost a lot of…

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Wheat Bounty Bill Passes All Stages in the Representatives Canberra

Barrier Miner · Thursday 22 October 1931 · page 3

In the House of Representatives yesterday the Wheat Bounty Bill was introduced by Mr. Parker Moloney, the Minister for Markets and Transport,…

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Australian Wool Clip Value Expected to Be About £46,500,000 Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 22 October 1931 · page 2

On the basis of the prices now ruling for Australia's wool, the Commonwealth's clip of about 3,000,000 bales will realise at least £11,500,000 more…

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Wool Sales Melbourne and Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 October 1931 · page 2

Dalgety and Co. has received the following advice regarding interstate, wool sales:— At the Melbourne wool sale on…

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Dairying in Queensland Leader of Opposition Wants Royal Commission Brisbane

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 October 1931 · page 8

Mr. Forgan Smith, leader of the Opposition, yesterday asked the Government to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the dairying industry…

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Dairying in Queensland Leader of Opposition Wants Royal Commission Brisbane

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 October 1931 · page 3

Mr. Forgan Smith, lender Of the Opposition, yesterday asked the Government to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the dairying industry…

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Anglican Pastoral Letter Attack on Extravagance Sydney,_

Barrier Miner · Monday 26 October 1931 · page 2

'The Archbishops and Bishops of the Church of England in Australia have issued a pastoral letter which comments upon the economic distress, the…

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Adelaide Cattle Sales

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 27 October 1931 · page 2

Dalgety and Co. have received the following advice in connection with the cattle sales held in Adelaide yesterday ''About 9520 cattle were…

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Oversea Trade Revival Heavy Wool Shipments Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 27 October 1931 · page 4

The greatly increasod outward cargoes which have been shipped in the last Jew weeks from Melbourne show no signs of diminishing. Smaller…

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