Two Party Politics No Guarantee of Strength Tasmania's Big Crop of Independents
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 24 August 1948 · page 1
The fact that in the elections in Tasmania, where there were only two parties, Liberal and Labour, sixteen independents stood for the 30 seats in the House of Assembly, was evidence that the Australian people could not be dragooned into one or the other of two political…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lenty of Super for Farmers
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 24 August 1948 · page 5
SYDNEY, Monday : Full requirements of superphosphate for next season should be available if farmers ordered early,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Snow, Rain, Hail and Sunshine Most Unpleasant Day in Years Showers Benefit District Crops-Pastures
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 August 1948 · page 11
SNOW and heavy hail fell in several parts of the Albury district yesterday, mingled with the rain and sunshine in the most checkered weather of the year. Snowfalls in some centres were the heaviest for many years…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Special Charge on Wheat Deliveries
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 August 1948 · page 8
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Any old season’s wheat delivered by farmers after September 11 will be subject to a special charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SPRINGHURST Wheat and Wool Growers Meet
Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 8
Annual meeting of the North-Eastern District Council of the Victorian Wheat and Wool Growers’ Association was held in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Deniliquin Special Cattle Sale
The Pastoral Times · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 1
JOHN McNAMARA & CO. PTY. LTD. report: At our special cattle sale at Deniliquin yesterday we submitted just on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Commercial Wagga Sheep Sales
Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 14
WAGGA, Thurs.—The associated [?] Wagga, held their usual [?] nightly sheep sale today. Being [?] day fat sheep only were [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wool Students Study Polwarths At Henty Stud
The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 1
Students of Henty wool class studied Polwarths at a field day at "Glendoon" stud on Wednesday. They were taught to throw, skirt and roll a fleece, and to judge the sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Munyabla Junior Farmers' Club
The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 3
Munyabla Junior Farmers' Club held their monthly meeting on August 10, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Wolter. The president opened the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To The Editor Ammunition for Farmers
Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 7
Sir,—I read with interest the warning given to the Albury PP. Board, by Mr J. E. Jelbart, regarding the increase of rabbits and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat-flour Exports at Highest Level Yet Melbourne
Border Morning Mail · Monday 30 August 1948 · page 7
EXPORTS to date of wheat and flour this year had been the largest in any year of the board’s life, said Mr. C. T. Chapman, member of the Australian Wheat Board, today. Up to August 21/72 million bushels of wheat and 626,000…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →World Wool Situation
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 2
The continued world-wide demand for clothing the maintenance of the phenomenal post-war increase in American apparel wool consumption (in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dollar-earning Wool
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 2
Federal Labor’s press agents must have been pretty desperate when they sprung the so-called “black wool” yarn on the nation. Spectacle of the Prime Minister, “by clever sleuthing and shrewd deduction,” unearthing an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →T.b. Tests for Local Cattle
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 2
Hay Municipal Council will ask that the Departmental Dairy Officer who will be in Hay for the Show (24 and 25th September),…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Sales Mungadal Wool to 77¾d. Sydney Sales Open Firm
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 2
THE current series of wool sales at Sydney yesterday opened fully as firm—in places firmer—than the best of last season's prices. Mungadal wool sold up to 77¾d., and St. Andrew's to 72¼d…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Week-enders Menace to Farmers”
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 3
MELBOURNE, Mon. : People who invaded farmers’ properties near Melbourne for weekend shooting had become a menace…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Albury Sheep Market
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 September 1948 · page 10
The following is the order of sale at today’s sheep market: Dalgety and Co. Ltd., John McNamara, J. D. Turner and Co., Goldsbrough Mort,…
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Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 September 1948 · page 10
SYDNEY, Tues.: The wool market today ruled fully firm to yesterday’s opening rates. There was strong Yorkshire and Continental competition with…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Warns of Falling Wheat Prices
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 September 1948 · page 10
MELBOURNE, Tues.—Washington reports that the sellers’ market for wheat might end soon should warn Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Farmers Want Rain
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 September 1948 · page 2
Weather conditions are causing concern to landholders in the Walbundrie district. Rainfall has been below the average. During…
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