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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1948

1,371 stories in Murray's papers · page 51 of 69

Wool Values Again Firm

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 10

SYDNEY, Wed.: Under good competition wool values ruled firm today at yesterday’s rates for all descriptions. Yorkshire and Continental…

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Bumper Wheat Chops Cause Price Fall

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 3

Grain crops throughout the world promise to be the heaviest since the war, and wheat prices are falling as harvest reports come in,…

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Exchange Guard for Farmers

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 3

The exchange rate between Britain and Australia was the primary producer's only safeguard against legislative economic quackery,…

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“Just What Was Needed” Farmers Welcome Rain

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 3

“Just what was needed,” was the comment yesterday by district farmers on the splendid rain which fell overnight on…

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Kiewa Young Farmers

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 7

Kiewa Valley Senior Young Farmers’ Club held a successful day on Mr S. A. Turner’s property at Red Bluff. The juniors…

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Increased Prices for Cheese-butter

Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 September 1948 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thurs. : Increases of 30/ sterling per [?] for butter and 15/ sterling for cheese on last season’s prices will…

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Culcairn Wheatgrowers Urged To Support Wheat Case Appeal

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 3 September 1948 · page 3

Mr. R. A. Lowe, Culcaim branch delegate to the recent annual F. & S. Association conference, gave a comprehensive report of the conference…

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Big Consignments of Wool and Stock Pass through Echuca

The Pastoral Times · Friday 3 September 1948 · page 3

With shearing in i progress, and with the stock season reaching its peak; consignments of wool and stock passing through Echuca railway…

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To Start Cattle Ranch In New Guinea ? SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 September 1948 · page 1

AIM of American merchant seaman who arrived by air at Mascot tonight is to start a cattle…

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Wool Comes to Rescue

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 3

CANBERRA, Mon.: The acting Commonwealth Statistician (Mr. Carver) today reported that although imports from North…

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R.s.l. River Farm State Responsibility

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 2

The fight to retain the River Farm for use by ex-servicemen has reached a stage further, the Commonwealth having passed the…

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Huon Field Day Young Farmers’ Judging Competition, Too

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 9

On Friday last a field day and judging competition was held on Mr E Simmonds’ property at Huon. The main attraction was the…

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Late Commercial Wool Market Declines

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 September 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tues.: The wool market today showed a decline of five per cent, for all descriptions except good skirtings, which were unchanged…

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Wheat to Leave Silos This Week

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 5

Wheat at present stored in the country would flow to the seaboard early this week, the Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) has…

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Alleged Sheep Killing Two Defendants Convicted Ballistic Expert's Evidence

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 4

At the Jerilderie Court of Petty Sessions on Monday last before Mr. E. W. Debenham, S.M., Lester Francis Collier and William Smith…

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Competition Results Fat Sheep

The Pastoral Times · Friday 10 September 1948 · page 1

No one guessed the correct weight (932lbs.) of the fat sheep at the show on Saturday, but seven people were near the correct weight and will share…

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Wheat Stabilisation Plan Outlined By Mr. Graham SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 September 1948 · page 5

MAIN provision of the wheat stabilisation plan on which growers will be asked to vote at an early date were explained to-night by the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham). Main points in Mr…

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More Farms for Ex-servicemen

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 September 1948 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thurs.—Fifteen farms on Goba Creek, Kenya estate, near Boorowa, have been approved for soldier settlement,…

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Lang Fears Wool Going to Russia

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 September 1948 · page 2

CANBERRA, Fri.: Mr Lang (Ind Lab, NSW) drew the attention of the House of Representatives to-day to an…

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Stealing Cattle Case

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 14 September 1948 · page 1

A very lengthy case came before Mr. Dehenham, S.M., at the Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday, when Thomas Silyester Curtis and Thomas…

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