All Round Increase in S.a. Wool Sales
Adelaide, August 30.—There was a large attendance of buyers at the opening wool saids today when a good selection of well grown fleeces was…
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Farming & the land, 1949
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Adelaide Wool Sales
Adelaide, September 1.—Demand at the wool sales today was less animated than on the two previous days, and values were slightly easier. Top price of 76½d…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sheep Dog Trials Mr. Vin Scott's Dog Wins
It is a very long time since such on extraordinary interest was shown in a sporting, or competitive, event as was shown in the Sheep Dog Trials conducted in conjunction with the Hospital Birthday week-end. Men from all walks of life were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Board Chairman Critical of "Isolation Policy"
Describing as "a policy of isolation" the views expressed by Mr. G. Foletta, chairman of Prestige Ltd., Mr. Douglas T. Boyd. chairman of the Australian…
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Adelaide. Tuseday [?] large attendance of buyers [?]ing wool soles today w[?] election of well grown [?]…
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Sydney.—The Port Macquarie Police found a farmer lying seriously wounded, on his flood-torn property at the Maria River…
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Adelaide, September 6.—At Eudunda last night, Terry Hausler, the two-year-old son of a farmer in the district, was savagely attacked by a cattle dog and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep Industry Board for N.z.? Royal Commission's Recommendations; Land Fertility Problems
Main recommendations of the New Zealand Royal Committee on the Sheep Farming Industry, whose report has just been released, are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Twenty Injured In Freak Train Accident Protruding Bale Of Wool Causes Damage
Yass, September 9.—Twenty persons were injured by flying glass, one seriously when 45 windows of the first division of the Melbourne Express were shattered by a wool bale protruding from a passing goods train near Yass last night…
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Canberra. — Czechoslovakia has been granted a credit of £1,000,000 to buy Australian wool in 1949-50, the Prime…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Prices Decline
Sydney, September 12.—As compared with the prices at the recent auctions the woolmarket today generally was 5 to 7½ per cent, custer for all…
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Sydney.—America, and Canada would not buy Australian wool in quantity unless sterlirg was devalued or there was a fall in prices…
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Canberra, September 12.— Czechoslovakia will buy twice as much Australian wool this season as in the two previous years…
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With feed prospects in the district exceptionally good there has been increased activity on the stock routes and cattle are being…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Young Scot Here to Buy Sheep Farm
Sydney.—A 17-year-old Scot has arrived in Sydney from Inverness to buy a sheep station in Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Market Reports Cattle
The official report of the South Australian Stock Salesmen's Association on the Abattons Cattles Market on Monday was:…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plane Feeds Sheep
Sydney.—Starving sheep, stranded in the flooded areas west of Moree, are being fed by air. The sheep, about 2,000 of them, belong to two graziers at Garah and Weemelah…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australia Has 108 M. Sheep
Canberra.—Figures issued by the Commonwealth Statistician (Dr. Roland Wilson) show that on March 31 last there were 108,723,000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Woolmen Opposed to Central Wool Control
Both the wool section of the Australian Primary Producers' Union and the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers are opposed to a Government-controlled wool reserve price plan as a means of stabilising the price of wool, it is reported. Both…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Farm Implements
Two new farm implementation potato planter and fertiliser distributor, both coasting well under £100 sterling have recently been developed in the United…
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