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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1948

1,371 stories in Murray's papers · page 56 of 69

£19,000 to Fight Wheat Case

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 7 October 1948 · page 4

Wheatgrowers have raised more than £10,000 to finance an appeal to the Privy Council against the recent High Court decision…

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C.P. View on Wheat Plan

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 7 October 1948 · page 3

The Country Party had no desire to allow party politics to intrude into the question of stabilisation, now before, wheatgrowers, who had to…

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New Butter-tea Coupons, Nov. 27 CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 7 October 1948 · page 1

NEW butter and tea coupons will be issued through electoral offices in Australia on November 27…

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Plane Crashes Spraying [?] Crop

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 7 October 1948 · page 2

MOREE, Wed.: A Tiger Moth plane crashed and was wrecked, but the pilot escaped with minor injuries near Gravesend today…

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World Wool Stocks

Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 October 1948 · page 2

LONDON, Thurs.: The chairman of the International Wool Study Group (Mr R. F. Bretherton) today announced that world…

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“Wheat Transport Position Appalling”

Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 October 1948 · page 7

SYDNEY, Thurs.: The position of transport for last season’s wheat crop was appalling and both Commonwealth and State…

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Fat Sheep and Lamb Values Easier at Henty Market

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 8 October 1948 · page 6

Farmers and Graziers' Co. Ltd, Albury, and J. H. Wehrman and Co. Henty, agents in conjunction, advise I that they held their monthly stock…

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Dairy Worker Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 October 1948 · page 2

While working at Weidner’s dairy, near Doctor’s Point, South Albury, yesterday, an employe, Maurice Gearing, slipped on…

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£1000 Wheat Blaze

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 9 October 1948 · page 3

WAGGA, Friday : Over 1000 bags of wheat were destroyed when a 54,000-bag wheat stack was set ablaze at Gundabindgal…

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Wheat Ships Await Berths

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 9 October 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday : Thirty ships listed to load wheat In Sydney are being kept in other Australian ports until more wheat is…

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Wheat Deal with Japs

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 9 October 1948 · page 3

CANBERRA, Friday : The Minister for Commerce (Mr Pollard), replying in the House of Representatives today to Mr Rankin…

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Mice Attack Growing Crops Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 9 October 1948 · page 1

MICE are attacking growing crops in parts of northern Riverina, Including: west Wyalong, Ungarie…

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Hay Special Sheep Sale

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 12 October 1948 · page 2

A special sale of sheep, held at Hay on Friday last, by Messrs. Wilkinson and Lavender Pty. Ltd., and the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 12 October 1948 · page 1

The Melbourne Woolbrokers report that at the second Melbourne series of sales held on September 27, 28, 29 and October 4, the average price realised…

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Successful Sheep Sale at Wakool

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 12 October 1948 · page 2

NEW ZEALAND LOAN & MERCANTILE AGENCY COMPANY LTD. (inc. in England), in conjunction with ROBERT BRADSHAW, of Deniliquin,…

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Letter to the Editor Straying Cattle at Holbrook

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 October 1948 · page 2

Sir,—As a Holbrook ratepayer for 38 years, I resent the way Cr. Kane spoke at the last Holbrook Council meeting concerning me…

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Commercial Albury Sheep Market

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 October 1948 · page 14

The following is the order of sale at today’s Albury sheep market: Dalgety [?]nd Co. Ltd., New Zealand Loan, J. McNamara and Co., J. D. Turner…

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Wool Market Firm

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 October 1948 · page 14

SYDNEY, Tues.: The market ruled very firm at the previous day’s rates at Sydney wool s[?]les today, [?]mprovement being very fully sustained for an…

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Falling Wheat Prices Predicted

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 October 1948 · page 2

CANBERRA, Tues.: Under the wheat stabilisation plan growers would be able to carry on for the next five years with an…

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Huge Dust Bank Rolling Over The Ocean Millions of Tons of Top Soil Blown Away Freak Weather Continues : Cold Kills Newly Shorn Sheep SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 October 1948 · page 1

MILLIONS of tons of top soil scoured from N.S.W. by freak storms and winds during the past two days have blown 600 miles out to sea where [?] Skymaster pilot reported to-day that it formed a solid wall of dust hundreds [?] miles thick and 8000 feet high over the ocean…

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