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

Farming & the land, 1947

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Scoured Wool Queensland Record

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 5

BRISBANE: A new Queensland record for scoured wool was established at the Brisbane sales yesterday, when 74d was secured…

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Sheep Market Was Swamped Big Sale at Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 1

The largest yarding seen at the Goulburn saleyards on a Wednesday for many years was on offer…

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Gun-point Arrest Prison Farm Escapee

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY: Edward James Morris, 21, an escapee from the Emu Plains Prison Farm, was arrested at…

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71 1/2d Realised for "Waihemo" Wool

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 9

Up to 71 1/2 d was realised for sup A A AE of the Waihome clip from Boorowa sold on account of the estate of the late W. MacNeil, Waihemo,…

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Junior Farmers on Tour Crookwell Youths See North

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 4

CROOKWELL: Many residents here tuned their radios to 2TM Tamworth on Monday evening to listen to talks by three Crookwell junior Farmers—Pierce Campbell (19), Geoff…

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Fine Bean Crop

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 27 January 1947 · page 2

It is apparent that Mr. F. Funnell, of Goldsmith Street, does not need to take lessons in bean growing. He has been favoured…

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Skeleton Weed Saves Sheep Veterinary Officer’s Opinion

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 3

District veterinary officer at Cootamundra (Mr. B. C. Veech) reports that pastures have dried up considerably but there is still…

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Wool Prices War-Time and Present

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 6

Winchcombe Carson Ltd., report:—Indications continue favourable for the, sale of wool at the advanced prices…

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Big Yarding Of Sheep and Cattle

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 4

Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd., Crookwell, report having conducted a successful sheep and cattle sale at Crookwell on…

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Lemon Butter

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 2

Cream, 1 cup sugar, one eighth pound utter. Add grated skin of 1 lemon, 4 tablespoons water Juice and pulp of two lemons…

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Wool Prices Give False Impressions

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 5

Prices paid this season for wool had given the public a false impression of the return to the average grazier, Mr. P. A. Wright said last night. Mr. Wright, who is president…

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The Level of Wool Prices War-time and Present Costs

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 3

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: Indications continue favourably for the sale of wool at the advanced prices recorded this season…

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U.K. Farm Leader Sees Task for Australia

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 3

HERE TO GET FOOD FOR BRITAIN: Viscount Bledisloe, 79-year-old former president of the Royal Agricultural Society of…

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Many Farms Short of Water Outlook Is Grave

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 2

Property owners in the Goulburn district are experiencing the most serious water shortage in years and…

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Wool for Japan

The Burrowa News · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 5

The Australian Government has agreed to sell wool to Japan through the American occupation authorities. A Government spokesman said this…

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Wool Sales Brisbane and Sydney

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 8

The Country Producers' Selling Cq. Ltd. reports:— Reports from Brisbane, where wool sales are now in progress…

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Record Snowstorms Sweeping Britain Eighth Day of Intense Cold: Farms Isolated Gas and Electricity Cuts Force Factories to Close

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 5

LONDON, Friday: The eighth day of the great freeze-up brought with it further severe cuts in gas and electricity, forcing factories to close through lack of fuel and isolating villages. Blizzards, described as the worst since 1891, swept Falmouth and St. Ives, Cornwall…

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Young Farmers' N.S.W. Tour

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 1

Back in Sydney after a tour of Northern N.S.W. the three Crookwell Junior Farmers who won the Rural Bank's recent Radio Speaking Contest, were entertained at luncheon by Mr. J. E. Ridley President of the…

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Rutherglen Fly Potato Crops Menaced

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 1

Fears that the Rutherglen fly may result in a deterioration of potato crops are being expressed by district growers…

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Fund Opened to Erect Sheep & Wool Pavilion on Showground Long Range Plan £250 in Sight for Start

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 4

The Pastoral and Agricultural Association at a meeting on Thursday night held to the Memorial Hall lecture room,…

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