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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1934

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Good General Rain Pastoral Areas Will Benefit

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 September 1934 · page 1

Steady soaking rain which fell generally throughout the district today will prove of considerable benefit in the pastoral areas, particularly…

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Farmer Pinned Under Tractor

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 September 1934 · page 1

ORBOST, Wednesday. — While ploughing with a tractor at Jarrahmond, Oliver Matthews was pinned to the ground when the machine turned…

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Bread Price Inquiry Wheat Commission Here Soon Local Bakers' Disabilities

Barrier Miner · Friday 7 September 1934 · page 1

The Wheat Commission, with Sir Herbert Gepp as chairman, is expected" to visit Broken Hill shortly with a view to hearing evidence…

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Fair Bidding at Adelaide Wool Sales Buyers Expected To Lift Over 31,000 Bales (Reprinted from Yesterday's Latest Edition.) ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Friday 7 September 1934 · page 6

There was fair bidding from a large uttendanco of buyers at the first sale of the 1934-1935 Adelaide wool selling season which opened this…

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Buyers Inspect Adelaide Wool

Barrier Miner · Saturday 8 September 1934 · page 1

Inspecting wool (left) K. Tol, V. Hemery. A. [?] kioka (Japanese…

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Did Alsatian Kill Cattle? Queensland Grazier Claims Damages BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 September 1934 · page 3

"People who are talking about Alsatians do not, know one iota about the dog, or they would never say the things they do," said Mr. L. C…

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Lower Price for Wool Only 7.42d. a Pound In Adelaide ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 11 September 1934 · page 3

Wool sold in Adelaide at the opening sales of the season on Thursday and Friday, realised an average price of only 7.42d. a 1b., or £10/6/3[?] a…

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Japan Increases Wool Purchases

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 September 1934 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The general secretary of the Graziers' Association (Mr. J. Allen) said to-day that if Japan's consumption of Australian…

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London Wool Sales Quantity May Be Held Over LONDON, September 12

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 September 1934 · page 4

The fifth series of wool sales will upon on September 18. The amount of wool available will be [?]231,000 bales, but it is expected that in view…

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Farmer Gored to Death

Barrier Miner · Saturday 15 September 1934 · page 13

ADELAIDE, Saturday. — Alfred Fenne (60) was gored to death by a bull on his farm at Mallala. He was leading the bull when it became…

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Farmer Gored to Death

Barrier Miner · Saturday 15 September 1934 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Saturday. — Alfred Ferme (60) wits gored, to death by a mill on his farm at Mallala. He was loading the bull when it became…

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Lower Prices for Wool at Perth Sales

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 September 1934 · page 4

PERTH, Tuesday.—More than half the offering of nearly 19,000 bales of wool was passed in at the opening wool sale to-day. The top price was…

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Prison Farm Escapee Recaptured

Barrier Miner · Friday 21 September 1934 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—William Albert Owen Dodge (22), who escaped from the Bathurst Gaol yesterday, was recaptured this morning at Raglan Hill,…

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Cattle on the Ramp. Bullock That Called on the Tailor

Western Grazier · Saturday 22 September 1934 · page 4

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

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Alleged Theft of Sheep Abattoirs Manager Charged ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 September 1934 · page 3

At midday yesterday Herbert Ive, aged 68, who until last week was works manager of the Metropolitan Abattoirs, was arrested by the police…

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Substitutes Being Used In Germany Cellulose Mixed with Wool London, September 24

Barrier Miner · Thursday 27 September 1934 · page 4

The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports:—"The first signs of the expected winter shortage are beginning to show…

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Wool Sales To-day Local Clips To Be Offered Second Sale in Adelaide Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Thursday 27 September 1934 · page 3

Approximately 27,666 bales have been submitted for the second Adelaide wool sales, which were opened this afternoon at the Wool Exchange…

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Official Average Prices of Wool

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 September 1934 · page 2

The secretory of the Pastoralists' Association of West Darline (Mr. C. Sinclair Wood) advises that the average price for greasy wool sold from…

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London and Sydney Wool Sale Reports

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 September 1934 · page 4

Dalgety and Co. Ltd. have received the following advice concerning Wool sales held in London on September 24:—…

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Wool Prices Harden Strong Bidding in Adelaide Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 September 1934 · page 1

Under the influence of good general competition the Adelaide wool sales to-day were probably the keenest in Australia this season. Prices…

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