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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1933

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Higher Prices for Wool Up 30 To 35 Per Cent In Adelaide 17,000 Bales Sold Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Friday 8 September 1933 · page 3

Wool sold at prices ranging from £16 to £17 a bale at the wool sales which opened in Adelaide yesterday. Values, which were from 30 to 35 per cent. above those ruling at the last Adelaide sales in June, and 50 per…

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Vice-Regal Couple At Adelaide Wool Sales

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 September 1933 · page 6

THE GOVERNOR of South Australia (Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven) and Lady Hore-Ruthven were intersted spectators at the wool sales which were continued in Adelaide yesterday…

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Adelaide Wool Sales Average Price Over £17 A Bale ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 12 September 1933 · page 1

The average price obtained for wool at the sales in Adelaide last week was nearly 13d. a lb., and more than £17 a bale, as compared with…

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Emus Tramp Down Wheat MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 September 1933 · page 1

Damage to crops is being done in the Mildura district by an invasion of emus. The birds are in flocks of 30 or…

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Brisbane Wool Sales Estimated Average £19 a Bale BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 September 1933 · page 1

Prices at the opening day of the wool sales were 25 to 30 per cent, higher than the closing, rates of the sales here last June, and were equal…

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Wool Sales in London Real Test Next Tuesday LONDON, September 12

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 September 1933 · page 4

The real test of wool values will come with the opening of the fifth series of London wool sales on Tuesday next, says the Yorkshire…

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U.S. Surplus Wheat Export To Be Subsidised Govt. Will Bear Loss (Special to "The Miner.") WASHINGTON, Sept. 13

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 September 1933 · page 3

The agricultural adjustment administration announced to-day that it intended to subsidise the export of 30,000,000 to 35,000,000 bushels of…

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Loading Wool For Abroad

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 1

A PICTURE AT PORT ADELAIDE when bales of wool, bought by English and Continental buyers at the wool sales last week, were being loaded aboard the Zealandic for Europe…

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Wheat Glut in France (Special to "The Miner.")

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 3

PARIS, September 13.—Because of the wheat glut in France, the French Minister of Agriculture (M. Queuille) has urged restricted production, but…

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"The Great Unpaid" Women Farm Workers Want Share in Crop Proceeds Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 1

During a discussion at the women's branch conference of the Agricultural Bureau on a motion regarding the rights of wives of farmers under the…

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Payment of Pressers Pastoral Award Altered MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 16 September 1933 · page 3

Variations in the awards governing the pastoral industry were sought recently in the Arbitration Court by the Graziers' Association and others,…

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Payment of Pressers Pastoral Award Altered MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 16 September 1933 · page 3

Variations in the awards governing the pastoral industry were sought recently in the Arbitration Court by the Graziers' Association and others,…

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More Wool Consumed Japan a Large Buyer Mills Abroad Active

Barrier Miner · Monday 18 September 1933 · page 3

As Australian wool is still cheap to buyers in European countries on the gold basis there are prwobably good grounds for the anticipation in London…

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Wool Growers and Banks No Occasion For Uneasiness Letter to S.A. Premier Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 18 September 1933 · page 1

Saying that he desired to remove a feeling of uneasiness which had been created in the minds of sections of the community by a statement made…

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"Sheep Can Think" London, September 17

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 September 1933 · page 2

The secretary of the Performing Animals Defence League (Mr. E. M'Michael) hotly denies the assertion of Professor Craig, principal of the…

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The Wool Outlook London Sales On Tuesday "Especially Bright" (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, September 17

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 September 1933 · page 4

The wool outlook is especially bright. Seldom has there been less merino wool available at this stage of the season…

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Farmer Gored by Bull

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 September 1933 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Harry Samways (36) was attacked and critically injured by a bull on his dairy farm in Prince's Highway, Sylvania…

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Sheep Maimed and Killed by Broken Hill Dogs

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 September 1933 · page 1

Dogs have been playing havoc with sheep on selections within easy reach of Broken Hill. Last week one man lost sheep valued at about £20…

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Riverina Wool in Demand Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 September 1933 · page 1

At the opening sales of the season here the demand at the improved level was an keen as had been experienced in all other selling centres…

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50 Centuries Old? Mummy Wheat In England

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 September 1933 · page 4

Another chanter in the history of India and tile Middle East was discovered as a result of the excavations at Mohenjo Doro, in Sind, which brought…

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