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

Farming & the land, 1954

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Wider Use For Our Wool

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report: New research discoveries in the printing of wool have developed a method by…

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Britain's Part in Wool Market

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 8

A record post-war year of raw wool imports into Britain in 1953, amounting to 827.7 million lb, equivalent…

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“Matter Of Urgency” Work At Sewerage Farm

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 2

Work on the pumps at the sewerage treatment works was in hand said the health inspector, Mr L. A. Dunn, at the Municipal…

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Rain Effect On Sheep Market

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 7

Further drought breaking rains in south-west Queensland have unleashed an intense demand for good lines of young…

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Boorowa Wool Medium And Fine Show Rise

Boorowa News · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 4

At the fourth series of Goulburn Wool Sales conducted by the Farmers and Grazers', the market for…

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Synthetics Will Not Replace Wool

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 2 February 1954 · page 6

Synthetic fibres being produced and developed in England and America would never replace the traditional wool, cotton and rayon fields, Mr. A. J. Quig, deputy chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries (England),…

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Changes in Junior Farmer Movement in This State

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 2 February 1954 · page 2

The Junior Farmer Movement in N.S.W. is undergoing a change within the next month, and all Junior Farmers' Club' in the State will be under the control of full-time supervisors. The State organiser of the…

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Quality Sheep Sell Well at Goulburn

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 3 February 1954 · page 5

Goldsbrough, Mort & Company Limited report having conducted a large special store sheep sale at Goulburn yards on Tuesday…

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Vitamin A For Sheep Local Report

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 6

District Veterinary Officer, Mr. S. L. Black, to-day issued a statement on the use of Vitamon A…

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Wool Market Uplift: Russian Demand

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 2

With buyers for Iron Curtain countries dominating the Continental biddings last week at Brisbane on Monday, and at Geelong on Wednesday—values of all fine to broad wools reasonably free from fault, recovered this…

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Interest In N.Z. Wool Experiment

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 8

Two lines of wool, part of an experiment conducted by the New Zealand Woollen Mills' Research Association, in…

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Murrumbateman Wool Drive Brings In 337 lbs. For Hospital

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 3

The Murrumbateman Hospital Auxiliary has collected, pressed and despatched 337 lbs of wool in its annual wool drive. The wool…

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Eight Bales of Wool Given by Yass Graziers Red Cross Meeting

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 3

Yass graziers donated a total of eight bales, or 1800 lbs of wool to the Red Cross Wool Drive this year, a big…

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Machinery Field Day For Yass Junior Farmers

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 4

Reporting to an appeal for assistance for the Junior Farmers movement in Yass by Mr. George Crossley, president of J. F…

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Australian Wheat Crisis "Extraordinary" Thing

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 3

LONDON, Friday: Australia's wheat crisis was an extraordinary situation, Labourls Hugh Gaitskell, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, told the "Commons in yesterday's debate on the Sydney economic talks. Mr. Gaitskell said it was…

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Figures On Cost Of Wheat Production

Boorowa News · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 3

Interesting figures relating to the cost of producing wheat given by Mr. H. K. Nock, general treasurer of the Farmers and Settlers' Association and a former Federal Minister. Mr. Nock states that…

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Wheat Quality in District Best for Years

Boorowa News · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 6

The wheat harvest in the district has been completed under ideal climatic conditions, yields being at least of…

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Bank Help for Junior Farmers

Boorowa News · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 3

The Bank of New South Wales has announced its programme of financial support for the Junior Farmer…

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U.s. Bonus for Quality Wool

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report: Further information now to hand on the subject of President…

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Australian Sheep For U.N. Relief Work In India

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 3

The work of the Food and Agricultural Organisation was underlined this week, when Dalgety's Melbourne, shipped by the…

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