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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1934

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Aged Farmer's Suicide

Barrier Miner · Friday 23 March 1934 · page 4

AUCKLAND (N.Z.), March 23— Alfred James Smith (81), a prominent farmer" in the Taranaki district, who was found hanging in a motor…

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"The Miner" Serial "King Cobra" Prater John's Cattle

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 March 1934 · page 4

SMILING grimly at the angry comrnents of the forbidding-looking palace guard, who lind somehow learned of the incident of the wrestler,…

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Wool Sales in Adelaide Value For Season £4,400,000 ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 March 1934 · page 11

An animated demand, at values fully equal to those ruling at the Adelaide sales in February, and better than those obtained at recent sales…

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Wool Sales in Adelaide Value For Season £4,400,000 ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 March 1934 · page 1

An animated demand, at values fully equal to those ruling at the Adelaide sales in February, and better than those obtained at recent sales…

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Draft Allowance on Wool Australian Growers Want It Abolished Views of Both Sides

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 March 1934 · page 6

Originating in the early days when weighing machines. Were not as accurate as present-day scales, the draft allowance on wool was made to cover any inaccuracies which might occur. Hie custom has become established,…

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German Embargo on Wool Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 27 March 1934 · page 1

Germany's decision to prohibit the importation of wool and other fibres, pending the appointaient of a controller of imports, described by…

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Business Quiet European Wool Markets Publicity Move

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 28 March 1934 · page 6

In his latest review of the wool market abroad Mr. Walter P. Devereux, the official representative of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council in…

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Rise in Wool Prices "Graziers Not Free From Care Yet" MELBOURNE, Wednessday

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 28 March 1934 · page 5

The president of the Graziers' Association of Southern Riverina (Mr. J, H. Patterson), in his presidential address at the annual meeting of the association…

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800,000 Employed in Wheat Industry

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tharsday.— Giving evidence before the Wheat Commission Mr. A. S. Rodgers, a former Federal Minister said that the most…

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London Wool Sales Third Postponed For a Week LONDON, March 28

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 3

The third scries of London wool sales, which were to have opened on April 24, have been postponed to May 1. The list of new arrivals for…

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Welfare Farm Criticism Minister Makes Reply (Reprinted From Yesterday's Latest Edition.) SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 4

The Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond) commenting upon recent criticism of the Department of Education by the general secretary…

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Sunbeam Wool Competition

Barrier Miner · Saturday 31 March 1934 · page 11

The makers of Sunbeam Wool are holding a competition in which entrants have to place in the correct order of popularity, ten selected Sunbeam…

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Sunbeam Wool Competition

Barrier Miner · Saturday 31 March 1934 · page 5

The makers of Sunbeam Wool are holding a competition in which entrants have to place in the correct order of popularity, ten selected Sunbeam…

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Country Women's Wool Exhibition

Barrier Miner · Saturday 31 March 1934 · page 6

Arrangements for the Country Women's Association wool exhibition were made on Thursday when the fortnightly meeting was held in the…

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New Zealand Stud Sheep for Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 April 1934 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The steamer Walkouaiti, from New Zealand, brought a consignment of high-grade Border Leicester sheep for…

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Manchuria Wool "No Rival To Australian" Position in Germany London, April 3

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 April 1934 · page 2

The statement of Mr. J. B. Remer, a Conservative member of the House of Commons, that Japan was building up a great woollen industry in…

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De Valera Anxious "Tide Setting Against Him" Farmers and I.R.A. (Special to "The Miner.") DUBLIN, April 3

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 April 1934 · page 1

The rival processions on Easter Day emphasised the growing cleavage between followers of President de Valera and the Irish Republican…

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Farmers Will Not Sell Wheat

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 April 1934 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Holdings of wheat in Victoria, both on farms and in storage, are the largest on record for this time of the…

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Victorian Potato Crops Ruined by Grubs

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 April 1934 · page 2

DAYLESFORD, Thursday.—As the representative of the Daylesford branch of the Potatogrowers' Association on the Victorian executive, and…

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Farmers and Anzac Memorial

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 April 1934 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A request by the Junee branch of the R.S.L. to the Junee Farmers and Settlers' Association for a gift towards the Anzac…

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