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

Farming & the land, 1949

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Geelong Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE: Top price at the final day of the Geelong wool sales was 160d. It was secured for three, super…

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Scotch Thistle Blamed for Sheep Dying at Cowra

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 3

The mystery death of 90 wethers on a Cowra property last week has been put down to Scotch thistle. The wethers were…

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Small Plane Down Two Men Escaped Injury Six Sheep Killed

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 2

Two Sydney men in a small plane made a forced landing at Yass Junction early this afternoon. They…

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Our Wool Not the Finest in the World

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 4

Despite any belief to the contrary in this country the Australian Merino is not the world’s finest wool grower. This honour…

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Million Farms Are Wanted

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 2

"We want 1,000,000 farms in this country as quickly as we can get them, and we want 10 happy people on each one."…

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Wool Ban

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 16 March 1949 · page 5

Storemen and packers may resume work next Monday It was revealed early this afternoon that a mass…

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90 Cowra Sheep Die Suddenly

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 16 March 1949 · page 4

The mystery death of 90 wethers on a Cowra property last week has been put down to Scotch thistle. The wethers…

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Pavilion For Show Is Still Packed With Wool

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 16 March 1949 · page 1

Arrangements for the 1949 Goulburn A., P. and H. Society Show will be seriously hindered unless 1,400 bales of wool now stored in the Recreation Area pavilion are removed by next Monday, the Society…

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Wool Ban

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 17 March 1949 · page 1

Me. P. J. Clarey, president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, attended the meeting of storemen…

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4000 Sheep At Taralga

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 17 March 1949 · page 8

About 4000 sheep were yarded at Taralga on Monday at the sale conducted by Farmers and Graziers…

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Wool Ban Meeting

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 17 March 1949 · page 4

Goulburn storemen will hold a meeting to-morrow night to consider terms which might end the wool store…

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Noxious Weeds First-class Crop of Bindy Eyes

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 17 March 1949 · page 1

At the Municipal Council meeting on Monday night, Council decided to clean up noxious weeds at the gasworks,…

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Fat Sheep Guessing Competition At Show

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 6

The fat sheep guessing competition at the Boorowa Show was divided between Mrs. B. C. Tierney, Messrs. C. Small and L. L. Taylor, who guessed…

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Kenn Interest In Sheep Judging Competition

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 1

The Novice Sheep Judging competition at the Boorowa Show created keen interest and fifteen entrants competed in the competition. The winners…

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Quality of Sheep Exhibited at Show Equal to Any Shown in State Magnificent Display: Record Entries

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 1

THE QUALITY OF THE SHEEP EXHIBITED AT BOOROWA SHOW MAINTAINED THE HIGH STANDARD, ACHIEVED IN PAST YEARS, AND WAS EQUAL TO ANY SHOW IN THE STATE. It was a magnificent display and the entries this year constituted…

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Sheep and Gardens Don’t Mix B’juck

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 21 March 1949 · page 2

A correspondent from Burrinjuck writes that for some time a number of sheep have been wandering round Lower Burrinjuck…

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Goulburn Decision About Wool Ban : Show Pavilion

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 21 March 1949 · page 1

At a meeting of the Goulburn Branch of the Storemen and packers' Union on Friday night, at which the State Secretary, Mr. P. Hampson, presided, it was unanimously, decided to support the verdict of the Sydney men to accept the offer of…

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Effect Of High Wool Prices

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 March 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY: The high cost of Australian wool was forcing clothing manufactures to seek cheaper…

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Boycott On Wool 10,000 May Lose Jobs

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 March 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY: The Storemen and Packers' Union has called a general Stoppage of all its members in…

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Agreement on Wheat After Twenty Years

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 4

WASHINGTON, Wednesday: A four-year international wheat agreement, within which 456,283,389…

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