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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

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Wool Research Plant at Leeds

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 November 1952 · page 8

Erected at a cost of £200,000, three new laboratory blocks at Torridon, Leeds, the headquarters of the Wool Industries Research Association, were opened on October…

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New Shrink-Proof Process For Wool

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 5 November 1952 · page 4

"Lanfix," a new process for rendering wool unshrinkable, has been developed in the laboratories…

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All-Wool Suits Still Dom[?]t In U.S.

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 5 November 1952 · page 4

Sales of men's clothing in the United States on a nation-wide basis during the current fall (Australian…

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Bright Wool Tartans Strike Gay Note At Paris Show

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 5 November 1952 · page 4

Bright wool tartans hold a privileged position in current design in Paris and are used for some of the smartest topcoats, casual jackets, dresses and accessories. Shaggy tartans…

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Sheep Missing From Ivanhoe

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 6 November 1952 · page 2

Local police have recently been informed that 639 two and four-tooth wethers have been reported missing from…

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S.a. Wool Sales

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 6 November 1952 · page 1

Adelaide, November 5.—The fourth Adelaide wool sales of the 1951-52 season continued today with prices…

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Dresses in Wool

Barrier Miner · Friday 7 November 1952 · page 9

Rust colored wool-muslin makes this interesting afternoon model. The sweater-shaped bodice is…

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S.a. Wool Sales

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 7 November 1952 · page 3

Adelaide, November 6.—The Adelaide wool sales closed today on a firm note with prices unchanged from…

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Farmer Freed of Slaying

Barrier Miner · Friday 7 November 1952 · page 8

Sydney.—A Parramatta Quarter Sessions jury acquitted a poultry farmer of manslaughter without hearing his defence. The poultry farmer is Ronald Charles Nielson (32), of Belmore…

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Sharp Increase in Wool Exports

Barrier Miner · Saturday 8 November 1952 · page 5

A total of 388,409 boles pf Australian greasy wool was exported during the three months ended September—nearly 100,000 more than in the same period in 1951…

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Distribution of Profit on Wool

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 11 November 1952 · page 4

The secretary of the Pastoralists' Association of West Darling (Mr. Besten) has received advice from the Australian Wool Realisation Commission that an…

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J.O. Wool Profits Special Distribution

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 12 November 1952 · page 2

The Secretary of the Pastoralists Association of West Darling (Mr. A. Beston) has received advice from the…

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Farmer From U.s

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 17 November 1952 · page 2

Miss Lucille Marshall, California's top young girl Farmer of 1951, here on a three-month tour of…

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2 Sisters Shot on N S.w. Farm

Barrier Miner · Monday 17 November 1952 · page 12

Sydney.—A woman was shot dead and her sister critically wounded on a farm at Galston Gorge, north of Hornsby, an outer northern suburb…

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Cattle Road Problem

Barrier Miner · Thursday 27 November 1952 · page 4

Darwin.—A cattle road from Victoria River to West Australia is almost completed after two years'…

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Orphans get Farm Income

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 November 1952 · page 3

Ballarat.—A man whose property is valued at more than £20,000 has left all the income from it to Ballarat…

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Farmer Found Drowned

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 November 1952 · page 4

Tamworth.—Keith James Tongue, 31. farmer, was drowned in the Peel River near Dungowan…

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Long Trek for Cattle at End

Barrier Miner · Saturday 29 November 1952 · page 5

Sydney.—A mob of 5000 Shorthorn beef cattle weaners, which left the drought-stricken Brunette Downs Station, on the Barkly Tableland, in the Northern Territory, five months ago,…

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Adelaide Wool Sales

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 3 December 1952 · page 2

Adelaide, December 2.—The fifth Adelaide wool sale opened today with prices equal to or five per cent…

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Wool Sales in Adelaide

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 4 December 1952 · page 1

Adelaide, Dec. 3.—Wool prices remained quite firm at' today's sole. Bidding was keen with the U.K. and…

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