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Farming & the land, 1946

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More Sheep Losses Feared Lack of Transport MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 October 1946 · page 3

Australia’s losses of 29,000.000 sheep, including 20 million in NSW and Victoria in the past four years, would be aggravated even further…

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France, Heavy Buyer of Wool SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 October 1946 · page 2

Of the 205,000 bales of wool sold at auction at Sydney. Brisbane and Newcastle this season., French buyers have obtained about 80 per cent. Although…

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Beef Cattle Ousting Sheep? Trend Seen in Queensland Brisbane

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 15 October 1946 · page 5

Severe drought alone had not caused a redaction in three years of Queensland’s sheen by a quarter, said the State Government Statistician…

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Deniliquin Cattle Sale

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 15 October 1946 · page 7

GOLDSBROUGH, MORT & CO. LTD. and ROBERT BRADSHAW report having conducted a very successful special cattle sale at Deniliquin on…

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Hay Special Sheep Sale

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 15 October 1946 · page 2

John McNamara and Co. Pty. Ltd., and Wilkinson and Lavender Pty. Ltd. (auctioneers in conjunction) report that there was good inquiry for a very serviceable…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 15 October 1946 · page 3

The Commonwealth Wool & Produce Co. Ltd. Report submitting a catalogue of 1747 bales of wool on October 9. The results included the following:…

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Nsw Wheat Belt Needs Rain Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 15 October 1946 · page 4

Heavy rain is still needed over the whole of the NSW wheat belt [?] this season’s crop is to approach satisfactory proportions. Substantial falls last month only…

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Farmers Fight ’Hoppers With Fire ADELAIDE

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 15 October 1946 · page 3

Because poison supplies are not yet available. famers at Quorn are spraying grasshopper beds with petrol and setting fire to them in an effort to save their crops. It…

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Albury Sheep Sale

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 October 1946 · page 2

There will be a yarding of 12,230 fat sheep and lambs and 9500 store sheep at today’s Albury market. Order of sale: Dalgety and Co., Goldsbrough Mort…

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Almost Half of Butter Exported Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 October 1946 · page 7

Butter output for the year ended June 30 last, was approximately 150,000 tons, which is 53,000 tons or per cent less than the average…

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Wool Sales Postponed NEWCASTLE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 October 1946 · page 7

Because of the fears of buyers that tally clerks and waterside workers would refuse to handle wool for shipment the Newcastle wool sales which…

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Dingo Pest Blamed for Fewer Sheep Brisbane

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 October 1946 · page 2

Many graziers were turning from sheep to cattle because of dingo pest, said Mr C. Humphreys, secretary of the Selectors’ Association today. In…

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Graziers at Law Over Agistment of Sheep £2275 Involved in Two Claims

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 October 1946 · page 3

During the 4[?] months in which a flock of 2635 sheep was being agisted on country near Bago, in the Batlow district in the summer of 1944-45, 1600 died, it was alleged at a sitting of the Supreme Court in Albury…

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Graziers Are Concerned Transport of Wool and Livestock Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 October 1946 · page 5

In a statement tonight to the Premier (Mr Cain) the president of the Graziers’ Association of Victoria, Mr T. Leigh Simpson, said…

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A Threat to Wool Exports Union Ban on Loading Ships Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 October 1946 · page 8

A tie-up of 2,500,000 bales of wool In Australian wool ports is threatened because of a dispute, between Dalgety and Co and the Clerks’ Union…

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Berrigan Sheep Sale

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 17 October 1946 · page 3

Mr. A. B. Macpherson, in conjunction with Messrs. Youghusband Ltd., will hold an important sheep sale at Berrigan on…

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Deniuquin Cattle Sale Goldsbrough, Mort & Co

The Independent · Thursday 17 October 1946 · page 7

LTD. and ROBERT BRADSHAW report having conducted a very successful special cattle sale at Deniliquin on Thursday last, when they yarded and…

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District Grazier Awarded £1867 Damages Seque to Deaths of 1600 SHEEP

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 October 1946 · page 2

Austin Montague, owner of the property “Wahroonga,” near The Bock, was awarded £1867/10/ damages against Jack Cyril Cheney, grazier, of Bago Station, by a jury at a sitting of the Supreme Court in Albury yesterday. In a cross action Cheney was awarded £75 for…

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56[?] d For Merino Wool; Australian Record MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 October 1946 · page 1

An Australian record for merino wool was established for four bales of super merino branded TRIBUNE/-DARLINGTON, which brought 56¾d a…

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Wool Sales Jeopardised Dispute on Sydney Waterfront Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 October 1946 · page 1

Wool sales scheduled to resume in Sydney on October 28 will be held up by NSW Wool Selling Brokers and Wool Buyers’ Associations unless…

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