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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1948

1,371 stories in Murray's papers · page 31 of 69

Board to Manage Wheat Silos Urged Present Control CRlTlCISED

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 May 1948 · page 1

Appointment of a Silo Council Board to manage the NSW wheat silo system on lines similar to a silo board functioning in victors,…

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£6½ Million Spent on Farms for Ex-soldiers

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 May 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.: A total of 174 estates have so far been secured for soldier settlement comprising: 1,267,131 acres at a…

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Alleged Confessions by Farm Hand

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 May 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Mon.: The Crown alleged confessions were made by Robert Angus Johnson, 18, farm hand employed by…

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Russia Again Active for Wool

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tues—Russian and Japanese competition was again keen at the Melbourne wool sales today when the 12th series for the 1947-48…

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124d Australian Record For Scoured Wool

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tues.— The wool sales were continued today. The selection was a good to average one and was drawn chiefly from…

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Fat Cattle Sales

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 May 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wed.: Following yesterday’s sharp increase in fat sheep lamb prices, bidding was very again today for fat cattle and…

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Commercial Ballarat Cattle Sale

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 May 1948 · page 2

Crawford Dowling Pty. Ltd.. report having conducted at the Ballarat Corporation yards, a special store cattle sale, when 833 head were yarded…

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Russia Forcing Up Wool Prices

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 May 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wed.: Experts said after the wool sales today that Russia apparently was prepared to pay any price…

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Ballarat Special Cattle Sale

The Pastoral Times · Friday 21 May 1948 · page 2

CRAWFORD DOWLING PTY. LTD report having conducted on Thursday, May 13, at the Ballarat Corporation yards, a special store cattle sale, when…

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Ballarat Special Sheep Sale

The Pastoral Times · Friday 21 May 1948 · page 2

CRAWFORD DOWLING PTY. LTD. report having held at the Ballarat corporation yards on Thursday, May 6, a successful sale of surplus district sheep…

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District Doings Pars From All Parts Sheep Show

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 21 May 1948 · page 4

Record entries have been received for the Sydney Sheep Show to beheld from June 2 to 5. Merinos number 609 against 555 last year, and British…

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Reply to Working Farmer

The Pastoral Times · Friday 21 May 1948 · page 3

Madam, It will be appreciated if you can grant space for a reply to the, letter published in your paper under the…

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Young American Farmers V/ant to Settle Here

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 22 May 1948 · page 2

What are the prospects young American farmers in Australia?" That is one of the most questions asked of members…

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Jews and Arabs Get Our Meat-butter Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 May 1948 · page 3

Although the Australian people are repeatedly told by Ministers and the bureaucrats that meat and butter rationing is being continued to aid half starved Britons, latest official statistics indicate that big quotas of these commodities are…

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Exports of Wheat and Flour at High Level MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 May 1948 · page 3

Exports of wheat and wheat equivalent this season to May 15 were the largest since the,, board was established, said Mr. C. Chapman, acting chairman, at the conclusion of the fortnightly meeting of the Australian Wheat Board…

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Stray Sheep

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 25 May 1948 · page 3

In the Court of Petty Sessions before the S.M., on Thursday, a plea of guilty was entered on behalf of Claire Coonan, who was charged on…

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/Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 25 May 1948 · page 3

The Melbourne woolbrokers report that at the continuation of the 12th series of Wool-sales on May 18, approximately 8000 tales were submitted. The…

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89th Birthday “Pastoral Times” First Published in 1859

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 25 May 1948 · page 1

TOMORROW the “Pastoral Times” commences its 90th year of publication, the first issue being published at Deniliquin on May 26, 1859. In the long interval it has regularly supplied its subscribers…

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Rabbit Skins or Wool Industry?

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 25 May 1948 · page 2

A defendant before the Hay Court of Petty Sessions, on Friday, gave as his opinion that the effective fumigation of rabbits…

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Legal Opinion Sought on Wheat Agreement

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 25 May 1948 · page 5

MELBOURNE. Mon.: Cabinet would consider its counsel's opinion on the validity of the International Wheat Agreement at its…

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