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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

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Farmworkers Available

Barrier Miner · Thursday 27 March 1952 · page 2

Melbourne.—Twelve hundred skilled migrant farm workers need farm jobs in Australia to avoid being…

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Cattle Loss Heavy

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 2

Darwin. — The Northern Territory Administrator (Mr J. Wise) said today that the drought in the Territory…

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Wool Prices Firm

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 7

Sydney.—Values continued firm for better classes of merino fleeces at both Sydney and Goulburn wool sales…

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Wool Sales Down

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 1

Sydney, March 27.—The first 12 first of the 1951-52 wool sales realised only £64,790,887—£66,324,077 less than for the…

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High Wheat Production Target

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 1

Canberra, March 27.—The Commonwealth Government has set a target of 300,000,000 bushels production in the next two years in…

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Social Happenings New Uses Of Wool For Her

Barrier Miner · Monday 31 March 1952 · page 5

New wool fabrics in glowing colors make fashion news in New York this spring, and a nubby chiffon tweed, featured by Monte Sano, is among the most exciting. It makes unbelievably…

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Wool Price Steady

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 1 April 1952 · page 8

Wool prices at the Adelaide sales last week showed little difference from the previous series…

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Decline In Austrian Primary Production (Summary of report prepared by the Research, Department British Farm Equipment Co.—Division of Standard cars Ltd.—568-578 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, [?]) Article Ii

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 1 April 1952 · page 3

In a series of three articles we are reviewing "Decline end Fall ... ?", the- most challenging and comprehensive survey of the alarming decline in Australian primary production yet published…

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Fox Farmer Compensated

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 April 1952 · page 2

Washington, Tuesday.— The House of Representatives voted today to pay a woman fox farmer 17,840…

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Farmer's Ball

Barrier Miner · Friday 4 April 1952 · page 11

The Farmers' Ball will be held at the Druids Hall tomorrow night and dancing will continue until 1 o'clock…

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Sheep Officer Retires

Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 April 1952 · page 9

Mr. E. A. Elliott (principal livestock officer in the sheep and wool branch of the Department or…

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Line Would Have Saved Cattle Loss

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 April 1952 · page 6

Darwin. — Cattle losses in the Northern Territory drought would nearly have paid for a railway which could have saved them, said Mr. Nelson, M.HR. for the Northern Territory…

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Pastoral Property Endowed As Research Institute

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 4

Sydney, April 7.—The establishment of a 24,000 acres Riveriss property as a pastoral research and training institute been…

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New York Designers Choose Fine Wool Fabrics For Pretty Spring. Coats

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 4

Spring coats in New York are refreshing in line and make the most of interesting materials. Including pretty fleece cloths,…

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Prince a Farm Student

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 April 1952 · page 11

PRINCE TUNKU MUSA, of Malaya, made friends of this champion Clydesdale after he had enrolled at Gatton Agricultural High School and College, Queensland. The quiet, unassuming…

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Wool Cheque Down 50 Per Cent

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 11 April 1952 · page 1

Sydney, April 10. — Australia's wool cheque for the first nine months of the current telling season totalled…

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Society Girl and Farm Hand Wed

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 16 April 1952 · page 4

London, Tuesday.—A society girl and a farm laborer who wed in secret are migrating to Australia at the suggestion of the girl's parents as 'the only way out of an embarrassing situation." The girl is Angela,…

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Farmer, 70 Kills Family

Barrier Miner · Thursday 17 April 1952 · page 2

Paris, Wednesday.— A 70 years-old tenant farmer, of Tronquay, Normandy, today cut the throats of his five…

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Geoffrey Is a Chicken Farmer

Barrier Miner · Thursday 17 April 1952 · page 12

HE'S ONLY FOUR, but Geoffrey John Turner, of Maidstone (England) is a proficient chicken farmer…

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Reap Crop Then Jail

Barrier Miner · Thursday 17 April 1952 · page 4

San Francisco, Wednesday —A Court at Fairfield, California, was sympathetic to a Chinese farmer who tried…

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