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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1934

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Australian Pastoral Co

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 3 January 1934 · page 2

Net profit made by the Australian Pastoral Company in the-year ended June 30, 1933, was [?]2,902, or £93[?] more than in the previous year. An…

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Australia's Wool Clip

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 3 January 1934 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Wool values in Australia in currency are now about 90 per cent, higher than a year ago, and double those ruling…

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Wool Prices Comment

Barrier Miner · Thursday 4 January 1934 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—"I would not like to see the price of Australian wool rise above the present level," said Mr. A. E. Hill, a prominent…

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Strong Sydney Wool Market

Barrier Miner · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 3

SYDNEY, Frlday.—Under keen competition, the Sydney wool market showed a distinct upward tendency for all descriptions, especially for the…

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Complaint of Migrant Farm "Slavery" Alleged London Letter London, January 4

Barrier Miner · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 3

The "Star" quotes another letter from F. Dodd, a British settler, of Murrabit, Victoria, in which he says: —"Does the British housewife know…

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Victorian Wheat for Far East

Barrier Miner · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 8

China and Japan accounted for the bulk of the wheat sent overseas from Victoria last month. Of 676,148 centels, computed to be worth £162,097,…

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Victorian Wheat for Far East

Barrier Miner · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 2

China and Japan accounted for the bulk of the wheat sent overseas from Victoria last month. Of 675,148 centels, computed to be worth £162,097,…

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Wool for Japan Purchase From South Africa "Inferior and Dearer" Tokio, January 4

Barrier Miner · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 3

"There is little danger that experiments in woolgrowing in Manchuria will affect Australia for many years," said Mr. O. Otake, the general…

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Wool Eor Japan Purchase From South Africa "Inferior and Dearer" Tokio, January 4

Barrier Miner · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 9

"There is little danger that experiments in woolgrowing in Manchuria will affect Australia for many years," said Mr. O, Otake, the general…

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Murderer's Dogs Shot by Farmers Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 1

Two dogs owned by William Moxley, the murderer of Dorothy Densel and Frank Wilkinson, were shot by local residents early yesterday…

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Private Buying Wool Selling Season "Menace to Growers" Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 2

How huge fortunes were made in the wool selling season just closed at the expense of the Australian wool grower, by buyers who carried out…

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Cane Farmer Shot Demand Made For £500 BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 1

V. DI Salvo, a cane farmer, of Boogan, who was admitted to the Innisfail. Hospital suffering from gunshot wounds inflicted by an unknown…

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Position of Wool Exchange Unpegged In Argentine Yorkshire Needs Met

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 1

In his latest letter on the wool position, Mr. Walter P. Devereux, the official representative of the Australian Woolgrowers Council in…

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Cane Farmer Shot Demand Made For £500 (Reprinted From Yesterday's Latest Edition.) BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 4

V. Di Salvo, a cane farmer, of Boogan, who was admitted to the Innisfail Hospital suffering from gunshot wounds inflicted by an unknown…

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Losses in Private Wool Sales. (Reprinted From Yesterday's Latest Edition)

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 10 January 1934 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesaday.—It is estimatern that New South Wales woolgrowers who this season sold their wool privately to country buyers…

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CONGESTION At SILOS Wheat Carted Home Again Bulk System Wagga (N.s.w.)

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 10 January 1934 · page 3

The fact that little wheat ia being shipped as a result of farmers not selling and that a serious state of congestion exists throughout the silo…

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"Worst Part of North" Darwin Area Says Cattle Man PERTH

Barrier Miner · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 4

Mr. F. C. Booty, a Kimberley pastoralist of 40 years' experience, who runs cattle on half a million acres at Hall's Creek, said he agreed with…

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Wool Mills Dispute Determination To Continue Extension Favored Orange

Barrier Miner · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 6

The manager of the Amalgamated Textiles Ltd. factory to-day offered to reopen the works to-day if sufficient numbers of employees offer…

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Windjammers to Load Wheat Activity At Port Victoria Port Victoria

Barrier Miner · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 3

Taking advantage of a moderate south-east wind, the four-masted barque Parma weighed anchor at the ballast ground here yesterday and set…

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Record for Season High Prices For Wool Keen Demand at Hobart Hobart

Barrier Miner · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 3

Up to 40¾d, a 1b.—an Australian record for the season—was paid for extra super merino at the Hobart wool sales to-day…

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