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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1948

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Wool Embroidery New Note At Paris Shows

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 28 October 1948 · page 1

Most distinctive fashion note in Paris this winter is the use of wool embroidery together with jet. braid and sequin trimmings to highlight simple wool gowns…

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More Butter For November

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 29 October 1948 · page 3

Canberrs, October 28.—The Minister for Customs (Senator Courtice), announced today that the monthly butter ration will be increased from 1 1/2 lb. per…

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Markets Cattle Section

Western Grazier · Saturday 30 October 1948 · page 2

Official report of the S.A. Stock Salesmen's Association, Adelaide Abattoire Cattle Market, Monday. Collie Market, Monday: Although the number of cattle yarded…

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Wool Competition

Western Grazier · Saturday 30 October 1948 · page 1

The annual competition conducted by the Far West Mission, and shortly to is decided in Wilcannia, is causing a lot of interest this year. The quality of…

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More Butter for November

Western Grazier · Saturday 30 October 1948 · page 2

Canberra, October 28,—The Minister for Customs, (Senator Courtlce), announced today that the monthly butter ration will be increased from 1½ lbs,…

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Top Wool Quotations Lower U.K. Wool Review

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 30 October 1948 · page 5

Top quotations in the Bradford market continue to adjust themselves to lower prices or merino wools reported from Dominion markets both in Australia and…

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Wool Cap 300 Years Old

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 30 October 1948 · page 6

A Tudor wool cap more than three centuries old found in excavations in Finsbury (London), and looking remarkably similar to the…

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Wool Cop 300 Years Old

Western Grazier · Saturday 30 October 1948 · page 4

A Tudor wool cup more than three centuries old, found in excavations'[?] Finsbury (London), and looking remarkably similar to the…

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Australian Wool Russia Fourth Largest Bayer

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 30 October 1948 · page 5

Russia has become the fourth purchaser of Australian wool, taking in July last, a total of about 10 million 1 h or 28 per cent of the wool sold to…

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Wool and Prospects Fresh Reports From Overseas

Western Grazier · Saturday 30 October 1948 · page 1

Today the "Western Grazier" is privileged to supply readers with the latest position of wool on the world's market. A glance at the dissection hereunder produces excellent scope for development or, better still, elimination of the factors which…

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Drought Kills Sheep, Cattle

Barrier Miner · Monday 1 November 1948 · page 2

BRISBANE. — The worst drought for many years is killing thousands of sheep and cattle in Central and…

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Wool Store Destroyed

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 2 November 1948 · page 2

WELLINGTON—The threestorey wool store of Levin & Co. at Kaiwarra, Wellington, was destroyed by Are…

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Heavy Us. Wool Buying Likely

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 2 November 1948 · page 5

New York, November 1.—"American mills will soon begin heavy buying at Australian wool auctions," says the "Herald-Tribune" financial write. "American buyers sat on the…

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S.A. Wool Prices Up 20 Per Cent

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 3 November 1948 · page 4

Adelaide, November 2.—Keen competition today, mainly from Bradford and European buyers, brought wool prices up to 30 per cent, higher than at the…

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£13 a Day For Wheat Stackers

Barrier Miner · Thursday 4 November 1948 · page 5

BRISBANE.—Wheat stackera at Pittsworth, on the Darling- Dewna, are earning £11 to £13 a day, and a…

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Death Of Mr. W. C. Gall Farmer Mines Superintendent

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 6 November 1948 · page 4

A former well known local mining identity, Mr. William C. Gall, diva at Bendigo yesterday. Mr. Gall had been in ill health for…

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Sheep Die on Ship Deck

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 9 November 1948 · page 6

Adelaide, November 8.—Of 475 sheep shipped from Port Lincoin for Port Adelaide on the Morialta, 150 were lost at sea or died from injuries and exposure…

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Hall Devastates Fruit Crop

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 9 November 1948 · page 5

Hobart, November 8. — Hall, which swept, through the narrow belt of high-producing orchards along both shores of the Hoon River at noon…

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Hail Damages Fruit Crop

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 November 1948 · page 5

Hobart—Hail, which swept through the narrow belt of highproducing orchards along", both shores of the Huon River, severely…

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