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

Farming & the land, 1950

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Wool Price Spells Inflation

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 4 September 1950 · page 2

ORDINARILY, an advance of even 25 per cent, at the opening of the wool selling sales in Australia would deserve to be…

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Sport News Ken McGregor Had Orange Coach R. Club Crops Give Good Finances

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 4 September 1950 · page 2

Ken McGregor, who pulled one of the greatest upsets in Davis Cup history, and was described by New York critics as "the wizard from Down Under," was ecached by an Orange man. He is Mr. Manton Bayley, who himself was a…

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Bigga Special Sheep Sale

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 6 September 1950 · page 1

Pitt, Son and Badgery Pty. Ltd., Crookwell, and L. B. Webster, Bigga, report having conducted a successful…

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Local Sheep Rises Not "Spectacular"

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 6 September 1950 · page 1

Bidding was sound, but slow, at the first sale of store sheep held in Goulburn since last week's phenomenal wool prices were recorded. A spokesman for the agents,…

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Dairy Farmers Co-op Milk Co. Huge Expansion

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 6 September 1950 · page 8

Mr. A. R. Keith, who has just returned from a board meeting of this company, gave some very interesting figures…

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Annual Meeting Of Crookwell Dairy Rural Co-op

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 6 September 1950 · page 1

Negotiations are to be made for the purchase of the business premises in Goulburn Street, now occupied by the…

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Junior Farmer Notes

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 6 September 1950 · page 8

The meeting of the Taralga Richlands Junior Farmer Club, held on Friday, 18th August, in the Taralga Public School,…

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Cattle-stealing Ended in Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 5

Samuel Oliver Wild, 35, a Walcha grazier, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour for cattle…

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A Handy Wool Market

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 2

The Farmers & Graziers.‘ Cooperative Grain, Insurance and Agency Company Limited, GOULBURN advise that MESSRS F. L…

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Migrant Hostels Planned for Rural Areas Additional Workers For Farms and Industry

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 3

The Federal Government, dissatisfied with the number of migrants being settled in rural areas, has a plan now for the construction of hostels in country areas, so that immigrants will be available for farms…

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Local Prospects For Wool

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 4

Record prices and keen competition are expected when the first of the new season's wool sales open in Goulburn on October 4 and 5. The sales will be conducted…

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Worms in Sheep May Be Serious

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 4

Although worm infestation has recently caused some serious motalities in sheep, and has affected…

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To the Editor the Proposed Wool Plan

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 6

Sir,—On this all-important question there are a few points in Mr. Tom Mewburu's reply in the "News" of August 25 to which I…

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The Farm Getting The Best From The Paddocks

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 4

On many New South Wales dairy farms, points out the Division of Dairying of the Department of Agriculture,…

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Wool Sales in Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 11 September 1950 · page 4

The opening sale of the forthcoming wool selling season will be held on October 4 and 5, and other pre-Christmas catalogues…

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Junior Farmers

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 11 September 1950 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture, (the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A.) has announced that he has decided to hold a school for…

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Wool Prices Up 5 P.c. Yesterday

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 12 September 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY: Nine bales of greasy merino fleece wool from Tarago sold in Sydney yesterday at the all-time Sydney record of 196d…

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Who Makes the Wool Values? Present Market Aspects

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 12 September 1950 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:—The extraordinary rise in the wool market even gave surprise to some of the optimists. Values for the raw material have more than doubled since this time last year. Shortage of raw material…

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Crookwell Wool to Be Exhibited at 1951 Sydney Sheep Show

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 13 September 1950 · page 9

The Crookwell A.P. & H. Society will co-operate with the New South Wales Sheep-breeders' Association by collecting and forwarding 20 Crookwell district fleeces to be…

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Wool Plan

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 13 September 1950 · page 1

The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Mr. J. McEwen, said last night the final decision on the…

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