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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1920

1,834 stories in Murray's papers · page 49 of 92

The Wheat Pool Matters of Finance

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 June 1920 · page 2

On June ll the Australian Wheat Board had a bank credit of £503,000, as compared with a debit balance of £103,000 on June 7. New South Wales and South…

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Substitute for Wool Only a Limited Use. London. June 19

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 June 1920 · page 3

Professor Midgley. of the Bradford Technical College, has exhaustively tested samples of artificial wool from the Continent which recently commanded…

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Alleged Butter Hold-up Victoria Grabs. Sydney Supplies And Restricts Export Across Border Famine Imminent at Albury

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 June 1920 · page 2

The end of the butter farce is not yet. The latest move by the Melbourne pool is to restrict the export of butter from Victoria into New South Wales. Several…

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Wheat Pools

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 June 1920 · page 3

Writing to an Albury contemporary, Mr. W. Ross, with reference to a motion carried by the Corowa District Council favoring cancellation of the…

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Embargo on Butter Albury Grocer's Limit Sales to Half Pounds

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 22 June 1920 · page 2

The new regulation regarding butter to which reference was made in yesterday's "Mail," is as follows:- "Commencing forthwith, and until…

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The Butter Embargo Albury Without Butter Yesterday

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 23 June 1920 · page 3

Practically no batter was obtainable in Albury yesterday. Small quantities of dairy butter camp in from country cen-tres, but it was all soil before if ar-rived…

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Straying Cattle at Wodonga Residents Incensed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 23 June 1920 · page 2

Despite the fact that numerous cattle have been impounded by the Wodonga inspector during the last couple of months, the straying stock nuisance still continues…

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Compulsory Wheat Pool. Berrigan Farers Oppose

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 24 June 1920 · page 3

There was a fair attendance at the special meeting of the Berrigan branch of the Farmer and Settlers Association on Thursday afternoon…

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Compulsory Wheat Pool Favored Port Fairy

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 24 June 1920 · page 3

At the Fanners' Convention this morning resolutions were adopted alfirming the principle of a compulsory wheat pool controlled by the farmers, and asking…

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Australian Wool Held 690,000 Bales in Britain. London. June 21

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 24 June 1920 · page 2

In the House of Commons today. Mr.J. F. Hope, Financial Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions, stated that the quantity of Australian wool held by the…

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The Wheat Industry Why It Has Suffered Address by Sir Joseph Carruthers

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 24 June 1920 · page 4

In an address before the agricultural section of the Royal Society. Sir Joseph Carruthers said that wheat farming in Australia was on a precarious foundation…

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Victorian Farmers' Union Wodonga Branch

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 24 June 1920 · page 2

A meeting of the above took place in the Fire Brigade Hall on Friday,18th inst. A motion was unanimously agreed to…

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Use of State Loan for Drought-stricken Farmers and Silos

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 24 June 1920 · page 4

The loan being floated by the State Government locally for £2,000,000. which closes at the end of .this month, is for the purpose of providing advances to…

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Shortage of Butter

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 28

There has during the past week or so been a shortage of butter with certain of the Albury trading houses, and enquiries made point to the probability that…

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Australian Wool

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 45

The "Yorkshire Post" says that the Commonwealth Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) has resumed direct negotiations with the British Government in regard to…

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Compulsory Wheat Pool

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 16

The executive of the Primary Producers' Union has ratified, with sligh alterations, the report and recommendations of a special committee of the union…

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Horses Eat Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 23

Mr. Bedford and Mr. D. Cooper, lessees of the Government tank at Coolamon, sustained a serious loss on Monday. It appears' a gate was inadvertently left open…

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Charged Too Much for Butter

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 32

At the Wangaratta Police Court, the Milawa Co-operative Dairy Co. was charged under the regulations of the War Precautions Act with having sold butter…

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Dear Wheat Next Season

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 23

The forecasts of a dear market for wheat next season were supported by a cable message received on Monday by Messrs. Shephard, Harvey and Co…

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