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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1948

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Wool Report

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 5

New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., report:--We offered a good selection embracing a wide array of types, ranging…

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Wheat Advances For the Coming Season

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 10

A Grenfell firm passes on the following information to its clients:--We have been asked several times recently what is the first advance on…

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John Howse Questions Wheat Board Replies Elicited

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 1

FOLLOWING the lengthy and extensive tour of the Calare Electorate, the member, Mr. John Howse, made representations to the Australian Wheat Board, on behalf of various associations and residents of the different localities affected by…

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Temporary Hay Baler How to Improvise From Wool Press

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 7

Many inland farmers growing lucerne, cither under irrigation or on grazing areas at times have suitable cuts which would make…

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All Lines Dearer At Tuesday's Forbes Sale Grown Sheep Up 4- Per Head

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 6

Edward Weaver & Company (Forbes) and the Farmers & Graziers' Co-op. Co. Ltd. (Sydney), auctioneers in conjunction, report that the Forbes…

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Wheat Concession Prices Granted by Australian Government At Expense of Growers

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 8

The acting-chairman of the Australian Wheat Board, Mr. Everett, said during the week that board members were gravely concerned…

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Feature of New Year Wool Sales Purchases for Japan Bring About Higher Values

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 7

Purchasing of wool for the Japanese mills has been a notable feature of New Year sales. The supplies bought chiefly comprise…

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Good Wishes To Forbes' Progressive Farmer Candidate In His Trip Abroad

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 1

Mr. Wallace Meares, the successful mixed farmer representative in the Progressive Farmer competition, conducted by the Rural Bank, has…

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Crop Fire

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 7

About forty acres of crop and stubble went up in flames at the Black property on Tuesday afternoon. The particular crop was being share-farmed by…

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Wool Report

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 2
Also in The West Wyalong Advocate

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Ltd. report: We offered a good selection embracing a wide array of types…

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Fire Destroys Wheat

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 1

O[?] two hundred bags of wheat and an acre of crop were destroyed by a fire which started on "Mogandale," McDonald Brothers property,…

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Wool Report the Farmers & Graziers' Cooperative Grain Insurance & Agency Company Limted. 20th January, 1948

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 3

We submitted a catalogue of 7,120 bales on Monday, 19th instant, comprising a generally good selection with a number of attractive wools…

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Wool Classers Apply for Pay Incrsases

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 4

An application for an increase in wool classing rates was made in the Federal Arbitration Court…

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Geneva Conference and the Wool Tariff

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 5

Behind the 25 per cent, reduction by the U.S. in its wool import duty is a story demonstrating how tenacity of purpose has served Australia equally well in…

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Wool Bought for Japan The Rise In Prices

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: Purchasing of wool for the Japanese mills has been a notable feature of New Year sales. The…

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Farmer Fined £20 for Not Feeding Horses

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 2

A farmer who sai dhe would not accept £1000 for one of his show horses, was fined £20 by Mr. Finlay, S.M., at the West Wyalong Court of Petty Sessions for not providing horses with sufficient food and water. Notice of appeal was given by Solicitor…

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Farm Hand To Face Murder Charge Coroner's Inquiry Into Caretaker's Death "Get Even" Allegation in Statement

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 1

Lloyd Fleming, 39 years old farm hand of West Wyalong, was committed for trial by Coroner H. Kaye, J.P., at West Wyalong, on a charge which alleged that he feloniously and maliciously murdered Hugh McKnight, 72 years old Anzac caretaker, who was terribly burned in the West Wyalong Golf House fire…

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Team of Farmers on World Tour

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 4

The three practical New South Wales farmers who won the Rural Bank's Progressive Farmer Competition from 105 contestants, will leave…

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Sydney Wool Sales 86d. for Super Com. W.

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 2

The N.Z. Loan and M.A. Co. Ltd., report:-- We offered a good selection drawn from a wide area of the State at our…

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