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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

1,729 stories in Murray's papers · page 59 of 87

Butter May Split the N.s.w. Govt

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 September 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun: Butter promises to cause split in the N.S.W. Labor Government. If the expressed intentions of one prominent Labor…

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Wool Is Smart

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 1

FB8/12 Australian Wool Board Photograph. CARVEN makes this smart morning dress in grey flannel, pipes it…

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Wool Eases Further

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 1

Mr. W. K. Henley, manager of the local branch of the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Co. Ltd. reports having…

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Lousy Sheep Driven on Road

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 5

Mr. Pocock, S.M., on Thursday, in the Hay Court of Petty Session's, found the facts proved in a cass in which the stock inspector…

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Wheat Board Official Here

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 2

Australian Wheat Board official, Mr. Pinner, is at present in Mathoura conducting preliminary surveys in…

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Butter almost disappears from Sydney tables

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.: From today, butter will be rationed to the public in Sydney at one ounce per person—the smallest weekly ration since the butter crisis began. Meanwhile, large-scale blackmarketing of…

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Wool Values Down in Melb

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Mon.: Merino wool were five per cent lower, while faulty secondary lines and skirtings showed a decline from…

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Fibres As Rival To Wool

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 6

The United State is planning a vast increase in the production of synthetic fibres as a substitute for wool…

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Winners of the Wheat Section at Show

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 1

The secretary of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society, Mr. S. W. Hunt, has advised that the following were…

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New butter price at Albury 2/11 lb. this time

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 1

Butter prices are on the move again in Albury, and from today the price will be 2/11 per lb. Announcing this…

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Faith in Junior Farmers

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 4

"I have great faith that Junior Farmers—the primary producers of to-morrow—will answer the call of this country to produce more…

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Sheep now number 115m

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 September 1951 · page 6

CANBERRA, Tues.: Despite considerable losses of sheep and Iambs during 1950-51, due to floods and disease and estimated…

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Butter Before Cabinet—no Price Increase

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.: State Cabinet today did not agree to any increase in the retail price of butter…

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Wheat acreage down in Victoria

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 September 1951 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Tues: Wheat crop acreage in Victoria would probably be less this year because many wheatfarmers had “swung over to…

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Merino Wool Prices Again Ease

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 September 1951 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tues.: Compared with the rates ruling at the close of yesterday’s market, values for Merino fleece wool…

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“Crops Somewhat Backward”

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 September 1951 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tues.: Although the foundation is laid tor above average wheat and oat crops, crops are somewhat backward for this time…

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Wool market declines

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.: The wool market, when compared with yesterday’s level, showed a decline of from par to 5 per cent…

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Queensland Shops Stormed for Butter

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 9

BRISBANE, Wed.: Housewives stampeded city and suburban grocers today in a record butter rush…

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N.s.w. Decision on Butter Price

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.: State Parliamentary Labor Caucus, at its meeting next Wednesday, will determine whether the price of butter will be increased from 2/8 to 3/1½ a lb…

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Wool drops 50 per cent in Durban

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 1

DURBAN, Wed.: Prices for Basutoland wool at the first wool sale of the season here today were from 45 to 50 per cent lower than at the close of last season…

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