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

Farming & the land, 1950

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Occasional Notes Proposed Wool Tax: Our Pampered Wharfies

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 26 September 1950 · page 3

The Federal Government has baulked, at the, proposal to put value back in the £ and turned to a brummagem plan to tax wool. As I have pointed out, the market should determine the rate of…

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Gundagai District Takes Up Dairying

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 26 September 1950 · page 3

Gundagai has established itself as one of the State's best milk producing districts. Some four months ago a link-up with Canbeera was made, and since that time bulk supplies have been leaving Gundagai at regular intervals…

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Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 27 September 1950 · page 8

SYDNEY: A total of 13,819 bales was catalogued at the Sydney wool sales yesterday, of which 13,622 were sold at…

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Taralga Wool Protest

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 27 September 1950 · page 1

Taralga woolgrowers sent' the following telegram to Mr. A. D. Fraser, M.H.R: "Please convey to Federal Government most…

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Liver Fluke Causes Heavy Losses in Sheep

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 September 1950 · page 6

Many owners in this district have sought information during this year on liver fluke trouble in sheep…

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Mr. Graham Strongly Opposes Wool Export Tax

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 September 1950 · page 7

"In my view, the Commonwealth Government's decision to imopse an export tax on wool is confiscatory action of the worst type and, in effect, will abitrarily dispossess wool growers of their lawful property."…

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Gouiburn Wool Sales on October 4 and 5

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 September 1950 · page 2

Following conferences between brokers at Albury and Goulburn with representatives of the Buyers' Association, it has been agreed that wool sales, as scheduled, should proceeds…

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Wool Away

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 September 1950 · page 5

Owing to congestion at Darling Harbour the Railway authorities advise that no trucks will be available for the despatch of wool…

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Sheep Population Is Up

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 28 September 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY: The State's population had increased by 2,750,000 during the 12 months ended March 1, of…

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SlDELIGHTS on Proposed Wool Levy When Wool Was 8d a Lb

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 September 1950 · page 1

F. WATERS, “Goldsworth,” Biala, Gunning, in a letter to the editor of the Goulburn Penny Post writes:…

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Goulburn Wool Sales on October 4 and 5

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 September 1950 · page 3

(REPORT SUPPLIED BY THE FARMERS AND GRAZIERS, WOOL SALESMEN, GOULBURN, FOR WHOM MESSRS. F. L. KELLY & COMPANY ARE THE YASS DISTRICT AGENTS). Following conferences between brokers at Albury…

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Yass Dairy To Be Conducted by Mr. Clarrie Smith

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 September 1950 · page 2

Mr. Clarrie Smith will carry on the old established Yass Dairy and there will be no interruption of milk supply to the town. As a…

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Wool Export Levy Opposed Expenditure Side of Woolgrowing and Stud Breeding Industry Merryville Pty. Profit £30,659; TAXATION £43,000— Where Is Incentive to Increase Production; Asks Managing-director (To the Editor)

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 September 1950 · page 2

Sir— This cock-eyed scheme of Professor Copland’s to put a 33 1/3 per cent on the proceeds from the…

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Sydney Wool

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 29 September 1950 · page 2

Winchcombe Carson report: We sold 9800 bales wool at our Sydney sale yesterday. An easing tendency in values…

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The Wool Oultook

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 29 September 1950 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: Wool purchases so far this season are certain to be in for genuine consumption as it is doubtful if any speculator would take the risk of operating at the figures which have prevailed. Millmen are also…

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Another Plan for Wool

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 29 September 1950 · page 4

CANBERRA: The Government parties are to-day considering a plan to freeze the additional £200,000,000 which…

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Wool Transport

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 3 October 1950 · page 2

The Minister for Transport, Mr. W. F. Sheahan, said that with the heavy movement of wool by rail to Darling Harbour it had become…

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Wool Quota

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 3 October 1950 · page 5

According to the Minister for Commerce and Agricultural, Mr. J. McEwen, the British and U.S…

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Wool Easier at Perth

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 3 October 1950 · page 4

PERTH: Wool prices were from 5 to 10 per cent. easier when the second Perth sale of the season opened yesterday…

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Letters To The Editor Wool Economics

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 3 October 1950 · page 4

Sir,—The more one considers it the more difficult it is to understand the suggestion of Sir Douglas Copland that an…

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