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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1953

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Rotary talk on wool

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 3

“Wool contains one of the marvels of nature and it can never be successfully replaced by synthetic thetic fibres” a prominent…

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New Wool Bureau To Fight Synthetics

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 6

With the objective of providing the wool industry with an organisation better equipped to meet the competition of synthetic…

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Cooper Trials For Working Sheep Dogs to Be Held Here in May

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 1

Deniliquin will be the venue of the famous Cooper Field Trials for working sheep dogs on…

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Only increased production can make future safe for wool, sheepman says

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.: The only way to keep wool in a safe position was to increase production, the president of the N.S.W. Sheepbreeders’ Association (Mr. O. Mcl. Falkiner) said today…

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Wool Week off to good start; shops do an excellent job

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 2

Most Albury stores yesterday welcomed Wool Week with excellent window displays bunting and illustrations suggesting why wool was so important to the Australian economy…

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Original Correspondence Wool and Synthetics (To the Editor of "The Riverine Grazier.")

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 2

In compiling notes for a book en wool and synthetics I have often repeated myself on the fact that while millions and millions…

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Wool Week Becomes Animate!

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 2

“Wool Week” arrived in Anbury yesterday morning for one family in the form of a strange ewe with a reasonable coating of wool…

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Albury Stores Backing Wool Week Outstanding displays are featured in all

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 2

Accent on the many uses of wool is the keynote of the varied displays in Albury shop windows which have been specially decorated for “Wool Week,” which opened on Monday…

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Cornishlown young farmers meet

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 15

Eleven members were present at the first meeting for the year of Cornishtown Young Farmers’ Club, when the main business was…

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Dry spell not hurting district fruit crops

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 6

Border fruit crops have not been greatly harmed by the current dry spell, according to several orchardists yesterday…

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21 junior farmers from West Australia “look in” at Albury

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 20

“West Australia has very much to offer, especially from an agricultural point of view, compared with what we have seen of the eastern States,” said Mr. W. F. Meston a farmer, who is supervising a team of 21 W. A…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 4

The Melbourne Woolbrokers report that at the Ninth Series of Wool Sales for the 1952/ 53 Season, held on March 2nd…

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“Wool Week'” Band Recital

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 2

Albury City Band will present a special “Wool Week” recital in Dean square at 8 o’clock this evening. The programme is :…

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Commercial Melbourne Wool Sales

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 12

New Zealand Loan and M.A. Co. Ltd. (inc. in England) have received the following wing wire from their Melbourne office: “Offered 9050 bales;…

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Farm Record Books Are Valuable

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 1

Farming is a business, and if a farmer would be completely efficient he must keep records of his financial…

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W.a. Young Farmers in Albury

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 5

West Australian young farmers, who are visiting Albury, photographed yesterday before embarking on a…

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Cattle Breeders' Competition

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 1

Mr. C. C, Lindsay, of "Catharbac," Ellensborough, has won the Oxley district trophy awarded by the Rural Bank in the…

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Wool Sales

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 4

Wool values continued to harden at the Sydney sales on Tuesday, March 24, when spinners' types remained fully firm at…

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Wool Week has been a success

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 14

What hats Wool Week meant to Albury and what has the public thought of it? Displays opened in retailers’…

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In Corowa Court Yesterday Two men each fined £10 over two sheep

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 6

Two men who Had stolen two sheep on March 24 mode en attempt to sell them to a Corowa hotel, Mr O. J. Lake, S.M., was told in Corowa Court yesterday…

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