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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1934

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No Advance To Wool Growers MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 August 1934 · page 1

The president of the Australian Wool Growers' Council (Sir Graham Waddell) last night denied the published statement that the woolgrowers…

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Stud Sheep for Australia

Barrier Miner · Monday 13 August 1934 · page 3

LONDON, August 11.—Dalgety's will ship in the Port Wellington on August 21, two Suffolk rams to Sir George Fairbairn, Victoria; a…

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Offerings of Wool

Barrier Miner · Monday 13 August 1934 · page 1

The total quantity of wool expected to pass through the Brisbane wool sales for the whole of the coming season is less than half a million…

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Even Cattle Fly In New Guinea

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 14 August 1934 · page 1

A COW being loaded into a Junkers 'plane for transport to the goldfields. It was this type of 'plane which carried the dredges to the Lower Bulolo field…

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Italy Has Postponed Wool Action

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 14 August 1934 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The Minister for Customs (Mr. White) has announced that Italy had informed the Government that she proposed to…

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Over Million Bales in N.s.w. Wool Clip

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 August 1934 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—According to the flatest estimate of the traffic branch of the Railway Department the season's wool to be transported…

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Free State Farmers Cannot Pay Rates

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 August 1934 · page 3

LONDON, August 13.—The special correspondent at Cork of the "Daily Telegraph" writes:—"Local government in the Free State has reached…

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Farmers Not Satisfied Government's Policy Not Accepted (Reprinted from Yesterday's Latest Edition.)

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 August 1934 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Addressing the Farmers and Settlers' Association Conference to-day, the president (Mr. H. Field) described the Federal…

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Wheat Crops Assured Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 August 1934 · page 1

Hammers were busy throughout the storm-damaged centres of the State to-day repairing damage to roofs, fences, and other, buildings which…

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Mystery Disease Among Cattle

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 August 1934 · page 6

LONDON, August 15.—A mysterious disease, which occurs nowhere else in the world, has killed many cattle in Somerset, according to the…

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Japan Wants Our Wool

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 August 1934 · page 4

BRISBANE, Thursday.—T. Nagal, wool manager of the Nippon Woollen Textile Co., in Kobe, says that Japan has no intention of curtailing her…

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Threatened Sale of Wheat "A Panicky Statement"

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 August 1934 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The president of the Council of Agricultural Associations in New South Wales (Mr. G. W. Walker) in a broadcast…

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Italy's Wool Ban Not Postponed

Barrier Miner · Friday 17 August 1934 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—The ConsulGeneral for Italy to-day denied that the Italian Government had postponed its action in regard to restrictions on…

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Martyr for Free State O Duffy's Tribute To Dead Farmer (Special to "The Miner") CORK, August 15

Barrier Miner · Friday 17 August 1934 · page 4

"I charge the De Valera administration with deliberately firing on unarmed men apparently intending to kill them," said General O'Duffy, the…

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Cattle on the Ramp. Bullock That Called on the Tailor

Western Grazier · Saturday 18 August 1934 · page 4

Our Sunday's dinner, prior to meeting the slaughterman often carries on in a manner which is apt to change our opinion of those…

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Brisbane Wool Prices Down (Reprinted from Yesterday's Latest Edition.)

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 4

BRISBANE, Monday. — The wool salon oponed with values about 20 per cent, below those of May last, but about on a par with the opening sales…

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Farmers Urged Not to Pay Blue Shirts Meet In Dublin DUBLIN, August 19

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 4

Irish farmers have been urged by the United Ireland Party (Blue Shirts) not to pay the land annuities, a special tax, in future. A resolution to…

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Man Fatally Crushed by Crop Roller

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 August 1934 · page 2

GAWLER, Wednesday. — Crushed under a crop-roller ho was driving when the pole broke, George Childs (73), of Williamstown, received fatal…

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Wheat Buyers Active

Barrier Miner · Thursday 23 August 1934 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thursday—Wheat buyers were active yesterday but found sellers not so responsive. The nominal quotation for silo wheat was 3/3 a…

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New Shipping Freight Wanted for Butter

Barrier Miner · Thursday 23 August 1934 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Negotiations will shortly be commenced for a new freight agreement between butter exsorters and overseas shipowners. It…

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