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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

1,729 stories in Murray's papers · page 22 of 87

U.s. Wool Prices

The Pastoral Times · Friday 13 April 1951 · page 4

Average price secured by United Stales growers for shorn wool in 1950 was 57.3 cents per lb., or the equivalent of 61¾d…

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Big Wool Purchases by U.s

Border Morning Mail · Friday 13 April 1951 · page 6

CANBERRA, Thurs: The United States was third to the U.K. and France as the chief importer of Australian wool for the eight months…

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A.w.f. to Probe Wheat Costs

The Pastoral Times · Friday 13 April 1951 · page 3

Cost of production of wheat is to be investigated by the Australian Wheatgrowers’ Federation. The survey will give…

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Driver fined £50 in Holbrook court following crash into sheep

Border Morning Mail · Friday 13 April 1951 · page 9

Transport driver Donald Sidney Turnbull, Dolan’s Bay (Vic) was fined a total of £50, and ordered to pay a total of £1 costs in Holbrook court yesterday by Mr Beavers, S. M…

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Rainfalls Over Wide District Area “Worth over million pounds to farmers”

Border Morning Mail · Friday 13 April 1951 · page 2

Rain estimated to be worth more than e million pounds to famers fell generally throughout the wheat belt yesterday. It extended from the order to the furthermost parched corners of Riverina and North-Eastern Victoria…

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Land Resumption at 1942 VALUES (Contributed by the secretary of the United Farmers’ Association, Mr. C. Chapman, of Sydney, N.S.W.)

The Pastoral Times · Friday 13 April 1951 · page 8

Public attention has been focused on the resumption policy of the Lands Department by the recent case at…

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Commercial Albury Special Sheep Sale

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 14 April 1951 · page 18

Dalgety & Co. Ltd. and New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. conducted another regular special sheep sale at Albury yesterday, when to a…

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Nine Farms Near Finley for Soldier Settlement

The Observer · Saturday 14 April 1951 · page 2

Nine farms on "Geraki" Estate, near Finley, will be open for application under the War Service Land Settlement scheme till April 27, 1951, the…

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Hormone Weed Killer Demonstrated on District Crops

The Observer · Saturday 14 April 1951 · page 6

About fifty farmers from all over the South-west attended a field day at "Reynella," the property of Mr. P. H. Lieschke, Walbundrie, last week to see…

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South African Wool Unsold

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 April 1951 · page 4

PORT ELIZABETH, Sun.: More than half the wool offered for sale here on Friday remained in the…

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Wool Board’s Head’s Appeal

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 April 1951 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sun.: The wool industry, prosperous as it is today, could not allow production to fall without breaking faith…

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Kiewa Dairyfarmers Elect Officers

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 April 1951 · page 6

At the annual meeting of Kiewa branch of Victorian Dairyfarrrier’s Associaton, held at Kergunyah, the following office-bearers were…

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McEwen on Wool Tax

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 April 1951 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Mon.: “No woolgrower will pay a farthing more tax than will be payable by any other member of the community…

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Wool values harder at Brisbane

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 April 1951 · page 2

BRISBANE, Mon.: Although values or Well grown wools were 15 per, cent lower than Brisbane March rates at the…

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Wool Down 35 P.c

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 April 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.: The Australian Wool Realisation Commission average prices for clean raw wool at the…

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In Days Gone Six Years Ago (From the “Pastoral Times,” March 16, 1945)

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 17 April 1951 · page 2

Personal — Sgt. “Lab” Henderson has been home on leave. Mr. Kevin Douglas has received his discharge from the Army…

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Wool Prices Increase More Than 300 p.c. in Year

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 17 April 1951 · page 4

Wool prices rose more than 300 per cent. in less than 12 months, advises the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance…

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Labor Party’s promise on Wool Tax valueless, says Graziers’ head

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 April 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.: The Labor Party’s election promise to repeal the Wool Sales Deduction Act was valueless, the president of the Graziers’ Association (Mr C. M. Williams) said today. “Mr Chifley’s promise of…

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Visual Educational Films for Farmers

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 17 April 1951 · page 3

That the farmer of today is continually on the look out for subjects dealing with modern farming methods, particularly though the…

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Farmer allegedly kills his family

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 April 1951 · page 1

WINNIPEG (Manitoba), Mon.: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police yesterday charged a 31-year-old farmer…

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