No Approach By Spain For Dollar Wheat
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Spain had not approached Australia for wheat for which she would pay dollars, the Minister for…
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Farming & the land, 1950
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Third Biggest Wool Jump In 25 Years
LONDON, Thurs. (O.S.R.): The Australian wool market has exceeded Bradford expectations this Week by registering the third biggest jump in 25 years…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Brokers expect rising prices for wool to continue to-morrow, when better class wool will be offered at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Synthetic Fibres Not Equal To Wool Say U.S. Experts
No synthetic fibre approaches, or even remotely imitates, the exclusive service and wear-values of wool in clothing, according to Mr. F. Eugene Ackerman, chairman of the executive committee of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Suburban and District Junior Farmers' Exhibits For Newcastle Show
Morisset and Cooranbong Junior Farmers' Clubs will combine in staging a J.F.C. district exhibit at Newcastle Show this year…
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Queenslander Laurie Petersen is in the happy position that if his bid for contests with the top-line welters fails this time…
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Entries for the Junior Farmers' section at the Newcastle Show had far exceeded expectations, the show secretary…
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The British ship Trevince is expected to leave Newcastle to-day with 9400 tons of wheat for India. She will be the eighth ship to…
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LONDON, Jan. 19. A.A.P.—Grain experts said to-day that negotiations for a large British purchase of Australian wheat had been suspended and might not be resumed till May…
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LONDON: Police were called out at Reading to deal with 50 head of Irish cattle which stampeded from a riverside…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Spain Has Shortage Of Wheat
MADRID, Fri. (A.A.P.): Spain's use of scarce dollars to buy wheat in the United States and Canada…
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Newcastle's wheat exports this season will have risen to 68,620 tons when the Trevince sails for India with a full cargo tomorrow morning. Nine ships will have then left…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Labelling of at least 153 million articles will be made necessary by a decision of an all-State conference…
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Three hundred bales of wool for America will leave Newcastle in the Pioneer Isle this afternoon…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A new season's record of 173d a lb was established for greasy merino fleece at Sydney wool sales to-day…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The State Prices Minister's conference to-day refused to grant a further increase in the price of petrol. An immediate increase in…
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Continued on Trove, page 6 →Guns Or Butter Big Problem For U.S. "Herald" Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—The heavy Budget deficit has awakened America to the high cost of wars. President Truman has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bradford Kept Guessing by Record Boom in Wool
BRADFORD, Fri. (O.S.R.): The Yorkshire wool industry is nonplussed by steeply rising Dominion wool prices, which are bringing Bradford Merino tops within measurable distance of the highest price ever recorded. Australian and South African…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Injured Farmer Saved From Bull
A NEIGHBOUR saved a young Paterson farmer from being attacked by a Jersey bull when his horse fell and rolled on him…
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