N.z. High Commissioner to Open Sheep Show
The High Commissioner for NZ (Mr Barclay) would officially open the Albury Sheep Show on the second day, August 6, said the Mayor (Ald Bunton)…
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Handling Wheat Harvest Government’s Plans SYDNEY
Plans for handling the coming wheat harvest were constantly being reviewed in consultation with rail, shipping authorities and the Australian Wheat Board, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Albury Wool Sales Brought £2½ MILLION Price Per Pound Doubled Last Pre-War Auction Figures
Figures released yesterday by the Albury Woolbrokers’ Association showed that the total realisation for wool sold at Albury during the recent season was £2,579,429/7/-. This was the first season since the war in which the wool had been sold at auction…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japanese Bid for Markets Our Wool To Help Them (A.A.P.-Reuter) TOKIO
Nearly all of the 150,000 bales of wool likely to be made available for Japan from Australia will be processed and exported, according to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Albury Sheep Show
Attention of district corriedale sheep breeders is drawn to the amended form of Regulation 12 (as advertised in today’s issue), which now reads: “Exhibitors may…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Unfortunate Misunderstanding About Wool
Although it had been regarded as almost certain that the U.S. President would veto the new American wool legislation imposing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cold Killed Four Million of Britain’s Sheep Sydney
The United Kingdom. High Commissioner in Australia (Mr E. J. Williams) said today that England’s last winter had killed four million sheep—25 per…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stabilisation of Wheat Industry “Still Long Way Off” Sydney
Wheal stabilisation in a form acceptable to the wheatgrower had now moved away again into the realm of “political manoeuvring, pipe dreams…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Polish Trade Mission for Britain Australian Wool Purchases Likely London
Polish trade experts would spon visit Britain to investigate purchase of British goods and to conclude contracts for sale of Polish goods to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ALLEGES A.W.F. Carrying Out Colossal Bluff Wheat Men Discuss Stabilisation SYDNEY
“Members, of the Australian Wheatgrowers’ Federation are carrying out a colossal bluff when they talk about instituting a Commonwealth wheat stabilisation scheme,” Mr R. K. Tilson, Wheatgrowers’ Union representative on the Australian Wheatgrowers’ Federation, said…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm Refresher Courses for Ex-servicemen Sydney. Wednesday
First refresher course in farm management for NSW ex-servicemen will be held at Wagga Experimental Farm from July 14 to September 5. Second…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Improvement of Wool Quality Importance of Regular Sheep Classing
The production of synthetic fibres is not likely to return to pre-war level, for some year, but there can be no doubt about their eventual comeback…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wheat Case for High Court
Mr. D. A. Kendall (president of Henty branch F. & S. Association) stated on Wednesday that he had received word that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Arrangements for Handling Wheat Harvest
Plans for handling the coming wheat harvest were constantly being reviewed, in consultation with rail and shipping authorities and with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Wool Sates LONDON
There was a keen demand at today’s London wool sales for the offering of 2508 bales of South American new clip, on private shippers account. This…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Goldsbrough Mort and Co. Limited Review of Pastoral Affairs
At the annual meeting of shareholders held on the 27th June, the chairman (Mr. K. M. Niall) reviewed pastoral affairs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Use Of Coarse Grade Wool For Making Wool Packs Suggested by Yerong Creek F.& S.
"That investigation be made as to the possibility of wool packs being made from coarser grade wool", was a resolution passed at the monthly meeting of the Yerong Creak branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association on Monday night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australian Wheat Prospects Quoted at World Conference London
Mr J. J. Dedman (Australian [?] Post-War Reconstruction) [?]dressing the International Cereals [?] in Paris, said that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Perfect Wheat Plan “But Orderly Marketing Necessary” Sydney
If the Archangel Gabriel brought down a plan for marketing wheat many Australian wheat growers would oppose it, said, Mr Field,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Theft of Motor Tyres Rutherglen Dairyman in Court
On June 21 last, Claude Henry Albert Penny, dairy farmer, of Great Northern, near Rutherglen, went into Rutherglen with a friend to get some batteries charged, and during the morning, with two other friends, he succeeded in getting himself charged also with a…
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