Letters to the Editor Immense Value of Wool Industry
Sir.—do not think politicians or the public even yet have any proper conception of the preponderating importance of the sheep industry…
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Sea water may turn deserts into rich farms
WASHINGTON, Tues.: The discovery of methods for taking the salt out of sea water at a relatively low east has opened the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers get increased tax concession
SYDNEY, Tues.: Farmers were now allowed 20/ per week as a taxation deduction for each employe’s food, a Taxation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers worried by education restriction
SYDNEY, Tues.: Alarm was expressed today by the conference of the Farmers and Settlers’ Association at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers move to have set up “national disaster fund”
SYDNEY, Tues.: The State executive of the Australian Primary Producers’ Union decided today to have established a “national disaster fund” for primary producers…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Farmers’ stand on railways
SYDNEY, Tues.: State Government should pay more attention to completing country railway projects-than :to city railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jerilderie Cattle Sale
Advertised in this issue is a Special Cattle Sale to be held at Jerilderie, on Friday, 29th August, 1952, when 2,000 well…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Finley Special Sheep Sale
Messrs Younghusband Ltd. and Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Ltd. Auctioneers in conjunction advise elsewhere in this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rhodes Scholar Returns to Farming
Dr. R. C. R. Cunninghame, N.S.W. Rhodes Scholar for 1949, who has just returned from Oxford, says he plans to go back to his 1,500-acre…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Woke up with knife in his hand, says farmer
MELBOURNE, Wed.: He remembered waking up with a knife in his hand and seeing himself covered with blood and his wife lying dead on the floor with her throat cut, a 42-year-old dairy farmer, charged with the murder…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wool and Stock
Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Co. Ltd. (incorporating the business of Wilkinson & Lavender Ltd) wired under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brisk Competition Expected at Next Wool Sales
As the opening sale-day of the new wool season approaches, it becomes more certain that competition, particularly for merino…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jury’s verdict in “dream killing” of farmer’s wife
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: A 42-year-old dairy farmer whose defence was that he bad killed his wife while sleep-walking was found not guilty on the grounds of insanity by a jury in the Warrnambool Supreme Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N.S.W. Government blamed for fall in farm production
CANBERRA, Thurs.: Mr. Bate (Lib. N.S.W.) today accused the N.S.W. Government of being responsible for the fall in primary production. Speaking in the House of Representatives during the Budget debate, said the N.S.W. Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) was presiding…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Albury Wool Sales 56,000 bales allocated for first three auctions
Albury woolselling brokers have been allocated a total of 56,000 bales for the first three sales of the 1952-53 season…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm and Fodder Competition Judging
The judging of the six Albury district properties entered in the RAS farm and fodder competition will take place on Monday and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →W.G.U. moves to help southern farmers in financial distress
A move to help Riverina formers who are financial distress because of seasonal conditions was made at the annual general conference of the Wheat growers' Union in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Elderly woman charged murder of farmer
MELBOURNE, Sun.: A 62-year-old woman charged with murder at the City Watch house early today following a fatal shooting at Amphitheatre, S miles from Avoca yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drought hits crops in Yugoslavia
BELGRADE, Son.: For the second time in two years Yugoslavia’s crops have been badly hit by drought…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Stabilisation of Wheat Plan
The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr. McEwen) hopes to discuss with representatives of the Australian Wheat…
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