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Farming & the land, 1948

1,371 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 69

Sportswomen Wear Wool For Winter Games

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 4

Wool is the basis of the wardrobes created by Andre Ledoux, leading Paris sportswear designer, for the women’s teams of skiers and…

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Fifty Years Ago From the “Pastoral Times” Files January 29,1898

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 4

THE RAILWAY SMASH—A serious accident happened to the train which left Spencer Street stations Melbourne, at 6.40 for Echuca and Deniliquin on…

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Interpreted in Wool Paris Fashions For Spring

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 4

Softly feminine are the Paris spring fashions, and wool fabrics have never been more popular, for the new line, depending on the…

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Seventy-Five Years Ago From the “Pastoral Times" Files January 25, 1873

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 4

BIRTH—Haines. At Hearn Hill, near Geelong, on the 15th, the wife of W. B. Haines, of a son—both doing well…

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N. S. W. Wheat Harvest 1947-48 Preliminary Estimate

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 3

The following preliminary estimates of the 1947-48 wheat crop for New South Wles have been made available by the Government Statistician (Mr. R…

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Wool and Stock Reports the Riverine "Grazier" Office

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 2

Owing to the holiday yesterday there were no stock sales at Homebush…

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Prices Control and the Farmer

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 1
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In Pert blast week the Federal Country Party Leader, Mr. A. W. Fadden said: "In the last three war years ending…

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Farm Prices Must Eventually Fall

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 5

“There have been so many warnings in the last two years from bankers, economists and businessmen that prlees of our…

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Drought Belief Grants to Cereal Growers Farmer Sentenced

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 3

At Balranald Court of Petty Sessions on December 18, 1947, Angus Graham McLennan, of Swan Bill, who pleaded guilty before Mr. E. J. Etherton, S. M.,…

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Our Wool May Suffer

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 January 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.: France’s decision to devalue the franc may have a serious effect on the Australian wool market, a…

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Wool Market Still Buoyant

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 January 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues — The market showed all the best features of last week’s auctions at Sydney wool Sales to-day with prices generally…

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Good Month for Dairying

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 January 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues: Excellent conditions for dairying prevailed throughout NSW during December, states the NSW Department…

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Shortages Stop Farm Production

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 January 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.; The Australian Agricultural Council, which [?] in Canberra on February 9 and 10, will discuss the continued…

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Bidgeemia Farmer Injured in Car Crash

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 January 1948 · page 2

When his motor car crashed into a washaway drain and overturned on the Lockhart road, 10 miles from Rand, last evening,…

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Crocodiles and Butter - Flies

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 29 January 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wed: A journey of 4338 miles in a small utility motor truck from Brisbane to the Peninsula in search of specimens…

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Wool £48 a Bale

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 29 January 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wed.: The Melbourne woolbrokers’ report [?] at the sixth series of wool sales in the 1947-48 season, held on…

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Australian Wool Record at Geelong

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 29 January 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wed.: An Australian record of 131½d per lb. was paid for four bales of extra super merino wool off Mr. J. M. Mathieson’s Lethbridge…

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Protest Over Wool Classes Transfer

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 29 January 1948 · page 2

Transfer of full-time wool classes from Albury to Wagga was referred to at last evening’s meeting of Albury Council by the Mayor (Aid C…

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Theft of £1100 in Wool Alleged

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 29 January 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed: A man was committed for trial to-day at the Central Police Court on a charge of stealing wool valued at £1100…

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