Wool Demand Keeps Meat Prices Up
Sydney. January 29.—Chairman of the Wholesale Butchers Association (Mr. C. W. Hodgson) said that the high prices being obtained for wool were keeping the…
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Farming & the land, 1950
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More Wool On Market
The Australian Wool Realisation Commission announces that, subject to modification or change if warranted by circumstances,…
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Will the price of wool remain at its present level? Mr. Ewen Waterman, Australian member of the International Wool Secretariat,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Water Filled Tyres For Farm Vehicles
A British tyre company reports considerable success in the experiments which it has been conducting with water filled rear tyres for agricultural vehicles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmer Seeks Housekeeper
London, February 6.—An Australian farmer, Alfred Taylor, living on a 70-acre farm near Melbourne, has written to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Germany Wants Wool, Apples
Canberra.—Australia woulds expand its trade with Western Germany this year, Mr. McEwen, Minister for Commerce and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Federal Policy on Wool
Mr McEwen, the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture said recently that the Federal Government would not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Featured by London Designers
Chiffon and feather tweeds and voile wool are among the new and lovely lightweight wool fabrics which London designers have featured at their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Surplus
Melbourne.—Australia would have a surplus of 40 million bushels of wheat this season, the chairman of the Australian Wheat Board…
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Sydney, February 8.—The 1949-50 wheat harvest, estimated at 83 to 84 million bushels is the second largest the State had had according to Mr. G…
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Newcastle.—A record wool turnover of £2,500,000 was sold in three days at the Newcastle sales this week. Five brokers sold a total…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vic. sheep have gold teeth
Melbourne.—They've struct it rich at Portland. Since Mrs. Charles Keiller lifted a sheep's head from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wheat Bags From Cannas
Sydney.—Mr. Wentworth Huyshe English farmer, has arrived in Sydney to grow cannas for fibre manufacture…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shots Fired at Aged Farmer
Lismore.—A 37-year-old farmer was charged with the attempted murder of his father in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Increase in Butter or Sugar Prices
Sydney, February 11.—There was no prospect of any increase in the price of butter or sugar for the time being, the State Prices Minister (Mr. Finnan) said…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Germany And Japan Australia Opposes Wheat Council Nomination
Canberra, February 17.—The Minister for Commerce (Mr. McEwen) said he had instructed Australia's representative on the International Wheat Council (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rise in Cattle Prices
Adelaide, February 20.—The price of cattle at the abattoirs market today rose from £2 to £3 a head…
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Sydney.—Stockmen fear that thousands of sheep have been drowned by floodwaters in south-western New South…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pastoral Meetings
A meeting of the Broken Hill Pastures Protection Board will be held on Friday at 10 a.m. The Pastoralists Association of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Oil From Japan For Wool?
Canberra, February 20—The important of oil from Japan would have to be arranged by the major oil companies the Minister for Fuel (Senator McLeay)…
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