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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1937

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Values Buoyant At Sydney Wool Sales District Clips Sell Well SYDNEY

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 2

We sold 10,500 bales of wool at our Sydney sales yesterday, reports Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. Values were very…

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Grabben Gullen News Junior Farmers' Show and School Picnic

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 3

The advisory committee met during the week to make further arrangements for the show which will be held on Saturday, February 27th…

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Case of Loafing Sheep Reported

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 3

Describe as a bad case of "loafing," in a report furnished by the police, the action of a man in charge of sheep in allowing…

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Case Remanded Alleged Sheep Staling

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 2

In the Court this morning, Francis Sylvester Corcoran, 54, was charged that at Bookham, near Yass, he stole a sheep valued at £1, the property…

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Wool Report. Schute Bell & CO., report:-

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 4

Competition has been most keen and prices very firm, and a little, better for faulties. The demand is strongest for all super descriptions…

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No Agistment For Cattle On Reserve Board’s Policy

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 3

In a letter to the P.P. Board on Tuesday, Edmund C. Hibberson “The Cottage,” Nanima, Murrum bateman made application to agist…

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Good Wool Prices Ravensworth Clip Sold To 35½d

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 1

With the market ruling firm Yass wools have sold well this week. On Tuesday, five bales of Mr. E. J. Merriman’s…

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P.P. Board Rates 2½ on Large Stock and ½d on Sheep Estimated Revenue £2227

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 1

At Tuesday’s meeting of the Pastures Protection Board, it was decided to levy the same rate as last year, viz. 2½d per head on…

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Film Star Farmer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 8

HOLLYWOOD: Miss Glenda Farrell, the film actress who appeared with Joan Blondell in "We're in the Money," has sold her house to buy…

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Grabben Gullen Junior Farmers' Club Show Sport: Personal

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 8

GRABBEN GULLEN: The advisory committee of the Junior Farmers' Club met during the week to make further…

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P.P. BOARD Weeds Identified Promising Potato Crop at Crookwell

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 3

The chairman, Dir. S. J. Southwell, presided at Tuesday’s meeting of the Pastures Protection Board. Others present were Dirs. W. C. Archer, W…

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Wool Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 10

The Country Producers' Selling Co. Ltd. report on 4th February:— Values during last weeks' auctions showed numerous fluctuations…

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Wool Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 5

New Zealand Loan and M.A. Co., Ltd., report on 4th February:— We brought forward a catalogue of 5890 bales to-day, which was…

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Wool Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 5
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd. write on 4th February:— We did not sell this week owing to roster arrangements, our next…

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Wool Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 10

In their report of 3rd February, Golsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd. write:— At our sale to-day we submitted a…

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Cattle Sale Satisfactory Clearance

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 9

On Thursday of last week Messrs. W. H. Dwyer and Company, stock and station agents, of Boorowa, conducted a successful cattle sale at the…

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He Was Hungry So He Took a Sheep

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 4

Charged with stealing a sheep, to which he pleaded guilty, a defendant in the Yass Court said that he was hungry and had not had meat for…

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Wheat Standard Fixed at 621b. Chairman's Optimism

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 5

The grain section of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce have fixed the fair average quality of this season's State wheat at 621b. per imperial…

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The Price of Wheat a Heartening Forecast

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 8

Thus a writer in the "Farmer and Settler":— The slump in wheat prices during the past fortnight has dismayed many…

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