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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

1,691 stories in Murray's papers · page 64 of 85

Wool to 100d in Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 September 1952 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Wed.: The first series of wool sales this season was continued today, when 10,000 bales were submitted…

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Wool Values Good at Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 September 1952 · page 12

SYDNEY, Wed.: Values for all descriptions at the Sydney wool sales today were at the best point of the week. However, considerable…

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Hardening prices for wool in Perth

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 September 1952 · page 12

PERTH, Wed.: Perth wool sales closed today on a hardening note. Values were equal to those of the two previous days and clearances…

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Bright tone expected at first of season wool sales at Albury

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 September 1952 · page 14

More than 76,000 bales of wool will fee offered for sale at Albury Wool Exchange in the first four months of the 1952-53 season. About 18,000 bales will be offered at the opening sale on September 24-25…

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Australia’s economy depends too much on price of wool, court told

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 September 1952 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wed.: The Australian economy depended too much on the price wool fetched, Mr. A. P. Aird, senior counsel for employers, told the Arbitration Court today in the wages-hours case. Counsel said Australia had pushed itself more and more on to wool,…

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Good news for the farmer

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 September 1952 · page 8

CANBERRA, Wed.: The Minister for Commerce (Mr McEwen) today gave a bright forecast for supplies of certain…

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Fat Cattle to £2 Dearer at Henty Market

The Observer · Friday 19 September 1952 · page 1

The Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Co. Ltd. conducted their usual monthly stock sale at Henty last…

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Lavington man for trial on cattle stealing charge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 19 September 1952 · page 7

A Lavington man was allowed £200 bail to appear at Albury Quarter Sessions next month on a charge of stealing 12 head of cattle valued at £345…

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The Week in the Wool Market

The Pastoral Times · Friday 19 September 1952 · page 1

The new wool-seeling season has settle down to a stability of values, which in Sydney was expressed by an…

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£6000 for 1000 Acres Cost of Growing Wheat

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 September 1952 · page 3

"It is very surprising how many people, even amongst the wehatgrowers themselves, do not realise the enormous cost of growing wheat at the present time," said the general president of the Wheatgrowers' Union (Mr. C. D…

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Items of News Wool Sale—january 14-15

Border Morning Mail · Friday 19 September 1952 · page 2

Albury Woolbrokers’ Association’s first sale in 1953 will be on January 14-15, association chairman (Mr. A. A. Rogers) announced…

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Wool values at the best point of the week

Border Morning Mail · Friday 19 September 1952 · page 8

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Values were of the highest point of the week for all descriptions, other than broad qualify merino, at the Sydney wool sales today…

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District’s Eyes on Wool Sales Here

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 20 September 1952 · page 2

The announcement by Mr. A. A. .Rogers, Albury Woolbrokers’ chairman, that 76,000 bales of Riverina-grown wool…

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Alleged butter fat racket

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 September 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon: Two detectives this week will submit a report to the acting Chief of the CIB Supt. J. Wiley on an alleged…

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Cattle Have Long Swim

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 September 1952 · page 16

Seventy head of cattle owned by Mr. Jack Gray were swum across the flooded Wodonga Creek from his…

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Wool values markedly appreciate

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 September 1952 · page 16

SYDNEY, Mon: Values at the Sydney wool sales today, when compared with the rates ruling at the close of auctions…

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Wheat Acreage Down in N.s.w

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 September 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Mon.: Of 2,800,000 acres of wheat sown in NSW for the 1952/53 season, 200,000 acres failed because of adverse…

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Melbourne Wool Sales Largest Catalogue For Week

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 September 1952 · page 8

Goldsbrough, Mort & Company Ltd., report for the first series of wool sales for the 1952/53 season was held in Melbourne from…

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Dairy Farmers Defended

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 September 1952 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Mon.: Dairy farms generally are not inefficiently run, the general secretary of the Victorian Dairy…

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“Secondary industry failed farmer“

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 September 1952 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Mon.: The failure of secondary industry to provide the farmer with essential machinery and…

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