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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1950

1,532 stories in Murray's papers · page 72 of 77

Bulk-handling Equipment and Wheat Farmers' Income Tax Returns

The Observer · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 3

Mr. D. E. Fairbairn, M.H.R. for Farrer, has received a letter from the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Fadden) in reply to a question which Mr. Fairbairn…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 11
Also in The Corowa Free Press

Younghusband Ltd. report having submitted their fifthe catalogue for the current season. They offered a very good…

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Geelong Wool Sales

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 2

The Geelong Woolbrokers' Association reports that at the third series of wool sales in the 195051 season held on 14th. 15th and 16th…

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Satisfactory Prices at Sheep Sale

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 2

At the final sale of the season conducted yesterday at Hay by Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Co. in conjunction with Younghusband…

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Wool Payment Period Extended

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 5

Owing to shipping delays caused by waterfront trouble, Melbourne wool-brokers have agreed to extend the period of payment from 21 to 26 days for…

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Commercial Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 10

The Melbourne Woolbrokers report that at the fourth series of Wool Sales for the 1950/51 season held on October 30 to…

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Subsidy on Wool Goods

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 5

Details of the plan for paying a sub on wool goods manufactured in Australia for domestic consumption were announced by the Minister for…

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WHEAT—No. 14 Pool First Advance

The Pastoral Times · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 9

Bates for the first advance to wheatgrowers on the 1950-51 wheat crop, soon to fee harvested, will be 6/7 per bushel for bulk…

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Minister’s Assurance on Wheat Sacks

Border Morning Mail · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 6

CANBERRA, Thurs.: Adequate supplies of cornsacks had been secured for the coming wheat harvest, the Minister for Commerce…

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High Prices for Upper Murray Wool

Border Morning Mail · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 10

At the Melbourne wool sales last week merino wool from the upper Murray, account Mr I [?], ”Glenalva” realised…

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Better Understanding on the Wool Plan

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 3

As a result of parliamentary debate and of explanatory statements made in other ways, there is a much more general appreciation of the…

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Shot Wheat to Be Received by Silos

Border Morning Mail · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday : Shot and sprung wheat will be received at railway silos on the Dubbo-Narromine line and northwards from…

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M.h.r. Explains Wool Auction Decision

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 6

Following an announcement that the Federal Government had declined to introduce a preemption system of wool marketing to meet U.S.A…

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Sheep Poisoned by Arsenic New Mortalities in Bathurst, Wagga Districts

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 1

Two new accounts of heavy losses of Sheep as a result of arsenic poisoning, this time reported from the Bathurst and Wagga districts,…

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£ 143 400,000 for Wool in Four Months

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 1

Wool sales in Australia for the last four months of this year, to October 31, realised £143.4 million--half the total cheque of £286…

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Young Farmers' Club Formed at Rutherglen

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 1

On Wednesday night, November 22, a meeting was held at the Council Chambers, Rutherglen, with the aim of forming a Young Farmer's…

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P. & A. Crop Championship to Messrs. Moore and Henderson To Compete in S.W.R.A. Championship

The Pastoral Times · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 2

MESSES C. MOORE and D. HENDERSON were winners of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society crop competition for 1950. Judging was completed last week by Mr. Gordon Crawford, district agronomist,…

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Smart Wool “Town” Suit

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 2 December 1950 · page 6

Lightweight tweed, striped in cream, white, brown and beige in a suit dress with threequarter length sleeves and a brown suede belt…

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“Rains Cause Major Disaster to Wheat Industry ” MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 2 December 1950 · page 18

“The wheat industry has suffered a major disaster through almost-continuous rains in Queensland and New South Wales during October and November” aid Mr J, S. Teasdale,…

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