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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land
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Canberra, August 31.—Vice Chancellor of the Australian National University, and wartime Prices Commissioner (Professor Sir Douglas Copland), today advocated an export tax to stabilise the wool industry. He said under on export tax…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney, August 31.—The wool market today ruled fully firm on the record level established during the week. There was strong and general competition from the Continent and United Kingdom. Useful support on suitable lines come from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney—The Minister for Lands (Mr. Renshaw) said that efforts by New South Wales at the May Canberra Conference to have the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney, September 1.—Wool experts estimated today that the 47,000 bales sold at the sales in Sydney this week…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne, September 1.—The Australian Primary Producers Union may oppose Professor Sir Douglas Copland's suggestion that an export tax be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death of 130 young wethers on a district station was suspected to be caused by gorging on wild hop bush, said Mr. J. E. Cantello (local stock inspector) in a report to the B.H. Pastures Protection Board…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Orooroo—The £13/2/6 paid for each of 14 merino wethers last Week is believed to be an all-time Australian high…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →New York, September 4.—With the world wide demand for wool and the supply dropping a rise in prices on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GOVERNMENT interference with prices in Australia has not been conducive to prolonging such experiments. Neither have the airy hypotheses of economists encouraged much reliance on their advice…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London. September 4.—Commenting today on last week's high wool prices the Foreign Editor of the "Evening News" said that Australia was on a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Capetown. September 5.—All South African wool price records were smashed at the opening sales of the season…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Melbourne—Twelve specially selected Australian merino stud sheep will be sent to America for breeding experiments…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →London, September 4—Commenting today on last week's high wool prices the Foreign Editor of the "Evening News" said that Australia was on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Armidale.—Samuel Oliver Wild (35), a Walcha grazier, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Capetown, September 7—Panic buying of wollen clothing of all kinds has swept South Africa since the announcement of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New York, September 4—With the world wide demand for wool and the supply dropping a rise in prices on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dubbo. — Four hundred heavily woolled merino ewes, worth about £3,000, died on a Dubbo property last week after eating arsenic from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Darwin, September 8.—Northern Territory Administration has thrown open the largest area of pastoral land since before the war. The land thrown open…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY. — Wool brokers predicted today that wool at the second series of sales this week would bring more…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Canberra, September 11:—Proposals for the Dominion wool reserve price plan will be submitted to the international…
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