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

Farming & the land, 1942

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Wool Outlook Contracts And Prices

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 21 April 1942 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: The purchsae of wool by the British Government in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand was automatically a stabilising…

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Help for Farmers

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 21 April 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Dunn, said in the Legislative Assembly that £100,000 had been made available for the alleviation of…

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Sheep Fly Measures For Control

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 22 April 1942 · page 6

No satisfactory single method of control is ever likely to be evolved that will solve the sheep blowfly problem, points out an…

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Grazier Fined Sheep Stealing Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 22 April 1942 · page 5

Remarking that he could not accept as satisfactory, the evidence given by defendant nor come to the conclusion that it was a case of…

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Two Prices for Wheat Cut Rate For Pigs

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 22 April 1942 · page 1

That brilliant statesman; Mr. W. J. Scully, M.P., Minister for Commerce, has struck a great idea. It is to provide cheap wheat to assist hog…

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From Everywhere Wheat Traffic

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 2

During the week ended on Saturday last, 120 bags of wheat were received at stations in the Goulburn railway district, making the total number of…

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1942 Wheat Plan Details Announced

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 3

The Minister for Commerce, the Hon. W. J. Scully, has announced that the Wheat Industry Stabilisation Board has considered the…

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Ships May Be Scarce Post-War Wheat Hard To Shift

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 2

It would "be unwise for" either farmers or the Government to anticipate that Australia's wheat surplus would quickly disappear…

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Potato Prospects Inland Crops Generally On Poor Side

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 3

The dry season, virus diseases, and moth attacks have contributed to reduce New South Wales inland potato crop to less than…

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Farming Aided

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 4

Even within the last five years objections have been heard in many quarters to the production in the Commonwealth of agricultural…

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Electricity for Farmers Concessions to Expand Sales

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 3

In his weekly press report, Mr. Fred J. Cahill, M.L.A. for Young, states that he is one of a Caucus Committee which is co-operating…

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A Flood of Protests Farmers' Labor Problems

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 3

Complaints regarding calling-up of manpower are 'pouring la to members of Parliament representing rural constituencies, said…

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Potato Crop at Orange

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 1

Many farmers throughout the Orange district are experiencing trouble in securing about to harvest the potato crop says the Orange…

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More Wool in Woolpacks

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 27 April 1942 · page 4

The following letter has been received by the Australian Woolgrowers’ Council from the Commonwealth Jute Buyer:— “Although the stocks of woolpacks held in Australia…

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Sheep Attacked Dogs Worry Graziers

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 28 April 1942 · page 1

Mongrel dogs, prowling at night in packs, are causing havoc amongst sheep on properties bordering the township of Junee…

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Farmer's Plight

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 28 April 1942 · page 1

Many farmers throughout the Orange district are experiencing trouble in securing labour to harvest the potato crop. The crop this season is light, but still…

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National Security (Shearing of Sheep) Regulations Announced

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 29 April 1942 · page 4

Material clauses in the National Security (Shearing and sheep) Regulations have been furnished for publication by…

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Sheep and Wool Classes

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 30 April 1942 · page 2

Claude Brown, of Dalton, was the successful winner of the silver cup, presented by the Yass P. and A…

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Sheep Brands Correct Placing

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 30 April 1942 · page 2

Sheepowners generally will be interested in a letter received by, the Goulburn Pastures Protection Board at its meeting yesterday…

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Wool Purchase Price

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 30 April 1942 · page 2

Referring this week to certain demands for an increase in the British wool purchase price, Mr. T. J. Collins said that before bothering Britain…

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