Ceylon May Seek Wheat From U.S.
COLOMBO, Nov. 6. A.A.P.—The proposed increase in the Australian price of wheat may result in Ceylon asking the United States…
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Farming & the land, 1949
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Aboriginal Artist Enters Pastoral Industry
DARWIN, Monday. — Albert Namatjira, the aboriginal artist, is the first full-blood aboriginal in the Northern Territory to take out a…
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LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.): The International Wheat Council has approved an increase in the guaranteed quantity for…
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SYDNEY: An application for an increase in the price of butter throughout Australia involving a rise of 3d to…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — Wool values improved 5 to 7½ per centlat Sydney wool sales to-day. The auctions were reopened under very…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—State Ministers is Melbourne on Friday will again discuss the proposed rise in the price of butter, but it was stated…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday. — Australia's 1948-49 wheat crop had yielded 190,703,000 bushels, the Commonwealth Statistician (Dr…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—There was excellent competition from practically all sections at Sydney wool sales to-day. Values were fully…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Railway Department, which faces the task of removing up to 75 million bushels of this season's wheat, still…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — The farming industry was in a better position now than before the war, the Director of the Bureau of…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A record for Sydney wool sales this season was made to-day when 121d a lb was paid for five bales marked…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — Mrs. Winifred Aurora Olive Davies, 57, was shot dead at the cowbails of her farm at Mulgoa, near Penrith,…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — The Liberal Party has chosen Ald. Gerald Davis, 52, agricultural scientist, of Young-street, Sydney,…
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Three hundred entries had been received for Wallsend Junior Farmers' 14th annual spring show, the Secretary (Max Broadbent)…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—Greasy wool shipments to the United States and Canada for the three months ended September 30 earned…
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The first complete wheat trains of the season arrived at Newcastle silos yesterday. They brought 16 and 17 trucks of wheat from the…
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LONDON, Nov. 11. A.A.P.—Britain is again losing dollars through the resale of sterling wool to dollar markets by non-sterling operators on the Continent, says the "Yorkshire Post."…
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In four sales before Christmas, Newcastle woolbrokers. will sell 105,000 bales of wool, In the same sales last year they disposed…
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Showers would benefit farmers, the Dairy Officer for the Hunter (Mr. J. W. G. Smith) said yesterday…
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