Crack Wool Ship Helpless When Engine Fails
SYDNEY.—Crack Swedish motorship Mattawunga, hailed as the fastest ship in the first postwar wool rush to Europe, is…
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Farming & the land, 1946
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High Values Continue At Wool Sales
SYDNEY, Monday.—The market ruled from bar to 5 per cent. above last week's rates at the Sydney wool sales to-day. Competition was wider…
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SYDNEY. — All wool being handled by Dalgety & Co. Ltd. in the port of Sydney was declared "balck" this morning by…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—In the present wool selling series, rates are 5 per cent. above last week's sales, according to the Sydney Woolselling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stop Press Sydney Wool Sales
SYDNEY: Early at today's wool sales many clips sold at more than 30d a lb. Best early price was 41d for a parcel branded TO over Boioco…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Speeches for Poultry Farmers' Elections
Eight candidates for the Egg Marketing Board election presented their policy speeches last night to members of the Newcastle branch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brisk Demand For Wool
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The good demand by Continental buyers continued to-day at, the wool sales. There was strong local Yorkshire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Clerks Declare Wool Cargoes Black
SYDNEY Wednesday.—The Clerks' Union to-day declared black all wool being handled by Dalgety and Co. Ltd., of Sydney. Subsequently the loading of 18,000 bales into the Fort Mingan ceased…
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SYDNEY.—Woolbrokers fear that the black ban on Dalgety and Company's wool, imposed yesterday by the Clerks' Union,…
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SINGLETON, Thursday.—Opportunity was taken by the Mid-Rivers branch of the Australian Illawarra Shorthorn Society to conduct a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Market Firm
SYDNEY, Thursday.—There was a spirited demand at Sydney wool sales to-day. Fine quality wools sold well. The market ruled…
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SYDNEY. Thursday.—The highly successful resumption of wool auctions had discounted the opinion that expanding production of artificial…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Moves to End Wool Ban Failed
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Efforts to settle a dispute which has caused a black ban to be imposed on all wool being handled by Dalgety and Co…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australia Has Lost 29,000,000 Sheep In Last Four Years
CANBERRA: Huge sheep losses through the drought in 1944 and 1945 are revealed in statistics issued today by the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →£300,000 Wool Research Plan
SYDNEY, Friday.—To meet the challenge of synthetics, £300,000 will be spent annually on a research work plan to increase wool and pasture…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →60,865 Bales of Wool Sold in Brisbane
BRISBANE, Friday.—Wool statistics issued by the Brisbane Wool Selling Brokers' Association for the 1946-47 season reveal that 60,865…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Producers Ask Higher Butter Price
TENTERFIELD, Sunday.—The annual meeting of the shareholders of the Tenterfield Cooperative Butter Factory decided to ask the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Expects Less Wool Next Year
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. A.A.P.— Production and consumption of domestic wool is expected to decline in 1947…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →World Wheat Output Up
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. A.A.P.—The Department of Agriculture estimates that the 1946 world wheat crop will be 5875 million bushels,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Finance For Wheat Research Institute
SYDNEY, Monday.—A wheat research institute would be established with part of loan money allocated to the Department of Agriculture, said…
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