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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

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Wool Continues Spiral

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 1

Goulburn, January 18.—For the second successive day three new world's records were established at the Goulburn wool…

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South African Wool Returns

Western Grazier · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 1

Pretoria.—For the first five months of the present action wool sales in South Africa totalled £32,778,000. This return is already greater than the value of the…

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Record Adelaide Wool Sales

Western Grazier · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 1

Adelaide, January 16:— The Adelaide Woolbrokers' Association announced to-day that at last week's 3 day sale 40,868 bales realised £7,825,353 which is a…

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Wool For Indian Cottage Industry

Western Grazier · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 2

The Cottage Industries Board. United Previnct, has suggested to the Government of India that it should revise its policy basically to enable the handloom…

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Huge Increase In Wool Value

Western Grazier · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 1

Sydney, January 15.—Wool sold at auction in Australia during the last six months of 1050 realised £370,812,729 for 1,718,033 bales. For the corresponding…

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Wool Boom Likely To Continue

Western Grazier · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 1

Sydney, January 15 — [?] of wool was likely to contin[?] appreciable period as request [?] were large according to a [?] by…

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Record Prices For Goulburn Wool

Western Grazier · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 4

Goulburn, January 17. — Three world records were established at the Goulburn wool sales today. Two bales of comeback wool brought 267½d, and…

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Wool Course For Britain's Teachers

Western Grazier · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 1

London.—More than 70 schoolteachers, lecturers and students from all parts of Britain have devoted a week of their Christmas and New Year holiday to a…

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Sydney Wool Sales Remain Firm

Western Grazier · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 1

Sydney, January 15.—All the best features of the closing days of the Mile last week were again in evidence at the wool sales today. Values ruled fully firm…

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Wool Remains at Record Prices

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 23 January 1951 · page 3

Sydney, January 22.—All descriptions of comebacks and crossbreds showed an advance of 5 per cent, at today's wool sales when compared with…

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New Soldier Farm Scheme C'wealth Approves Plan

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 23 January 1951 · page 4

Canberra, January 22.—Approval of State proposals for the acquisition and development of 158 new farms for a war service land settlement scheme…

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Station Sheep Killed

Barrier Miner · Thursday 25 January 1951 · page 11

Local police are inquiring into the killing of three sheep on a district station during the weekend. The sheep were slaughtered…

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New Merino Wool Record

Barrier Miner · Thursday 25 January 1951 · page 8

SYDNEY.—A new world record price of 313¼d. a lb. for greasy merino fleece was made at Sydney wool sales…

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Markets Cattle

Western Grazier · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 2

The official report of the S.A. Stock [?] Association on the Abattoirs cattle market of Monday was:—Although the booking by rail was very…

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Wool Sales

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 5

Sydney, January 25.—Auctions closed at Sydney wool sales today under keen and widespread competition from all sections of the trade, chief buyers being the…

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Wool Continues Spiral

Western Grazier · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 1

Goulburn, January 18.—For the second successive day three new world's records were established at the Goulburn wool…

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World Record Wool Price

Western Grazier · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 1

The following is a report kindly forwarded by Dalgety's:— New England snatched the world's record for Merino fleece at Sydney wool [?]try, of Lyndhurst, Armidale, advancing the peak price of the season to 313[?]d and eclipsing last week's record at Goulburn by 1d…

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Paris Uses Wool for Luxury Clothing

Barrier Miner · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 9

Paris, January 24.—The high cost of wool is rapidly placing it in the luxury fabric class. Paris, recognising this, has decreed wool accessories for winter. And they include glamorous…

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Action Under Way To Combat New Wheat Rust Strain

Western Grazier · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 3

Rust an ever-present threat to the world's bread supplies, is causing concern in the United States in a new race, [?]15 B…

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Women In Pastoral Industry Dangerous Influence, Says A.W.U. Secretary

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 3

Sydney, January 26.—In an attack on the employment of women as cooks in shearing sheds. the general secretary of the A.W.U., T. Dougherty, said…

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