Truck Hits Mob: 78 Sheep Killed
PERTH—Seventy-eight sheep were killed outright, five so badly injured that they had to be destroyed, and another 10…
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Farming & the land, 1950
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Record Proceeds For Season's Wool
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Total proceeds from the last season's wool sales and the average trice per lb were Australian records…
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SYDNEY: Australian wool growers would continue to have good markets for their wool in the next 12 months but prices may not reach the exceptional levels now ruling, wool experts said today…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Ruthless farming and soil impoverishment are destroying Australia's chances of keeping pace…
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CANBERRA, Sunday.—The Commonwealth Government has decided to terminate the services of the Chairman (Mr. F. M. Cullen)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dismissal From Wheat Board Causes Uproar By Growers
MELBOURNE: Dismissal of Mr. F. H. Cullen, Chairman of the Australian Wheat Board, would cost the Menzies Government thousands of country votes, Mp. A. C. Everett, Victorian growers' representative on the board, said today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cattle Dearer At Maitland
Prime cattle advanced £1 to £1/10/ a head at Maitland saleyards yesterday when 700 were offered. Best bullocks sold from £32 to £34/10/,…
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Wheat may be shipped from Newcastle all the year round because of the increasing number of districts sending grain to the silos…
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Rain and floods in the growing districts have seriously delayed the receipt of wool in Newcastle stores. Wool receipts in Newcastle…
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ROMA, Wednesday—Roma has had so much rain that wheat has struck in the damp wool of a pet lamb…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Delay Threat to Employment
The Manager of Grazcos Co-operative Ltd. (Mr. G. Morrow), said yesterday that unless wool supplies improved soon it might be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →11M. Dollars Wool Deal for Japan
TOKYO, July 27. A.A.P.-Reuter. —Japan would import 11 million American dollars' worth of wool from Australia, Pakistan and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Handbook For Wool Growers
The Australian Wool Board has issued another edition of "Handbook book for Woolgrowers," copies of which will be sent to about 40,000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Board Hits Out At Dismissals
MELBOURNE, Sunday.— Two resolutions which the Australian Wheat Board adopted earlier in the week, criticising…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers' Body Lapses For Third Time
The annual meeting of Maitland branch of the Australian Primary Producers' Association lapsed for the third time…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rain Restricts Fodder "Drop" To Starving Sheep
SYDNEY: Ran today restricted the dropping of fodder from aircraft to more than 2,000,000 starving sheep in flood-hit areas. The Flood Relief Committee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer Gored To Death By Bull
LONDON.—A farmer, Mr. Fred A. Staniland, 38, of Piper Farm, Long Whatton, Leicestershire, who was gored by a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Slag Wool Fire
Brigades from Cook's Hill and Hamilton answered a call to a fire in the slag wool department of Bradford Insulation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →EDITORIAL Wool Faces A Serious Challenge
ALTHOUGH more than half of Australia's population lives in cities and towns, Australia's prosperity, with all that it means in terms of shorter hours, higher wages and wider social…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The General Manager of the Australian Meat Board (Mr. J. Perrett) said to-day that cornsacks would be in…
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