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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1946

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Camp at Experiment Farm Trangie Leadership Club

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1946 · page 4

Plans for the camp to be held at the Trangie Experiment Farm from April 26 to 29 were discussed at the Trangie Culture Club's first meeting…

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Pastoral Workers Defiance of Award

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1946 · page 2

Mr. L. Connors, as secretary of a Central Disputes Committee of pastoral workers, Dubbo, supplies the following report to the Liberal" for…

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Farmers and Settlers Eumungerie Branch

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1946 · page 3

At the recent annual meeting of the Eumungerie branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, the President…

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Forbes Farmer Sentenced to Death

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 March 1946 · page 1

WILLIAM Robert Bathgate, farmer, 47, of Forbes, was found guilty and sentenced to death for the murder of an Italian market gardener, Luigi Orilga. Orilga, with Mrs. Ethel Wells,…

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Victory, Show Feature. Junior Farmers' Exhibits

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 March 1946 · page 7

A feature of the Wellington Victory Show, to be held on the 30th April and 1st May, will be the Junior Farmers'…

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Prime Minister Explains Wheat Stabilisation

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 3

"I feel that my Government proposals give Australian Wheatgrowers a foundation which will guard them against any return to the depressed condition existing before the war. The amount which can be guaranteed depends on export prices over…

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"Wheatgrowers Are Being Robbed" Stabilisation Plan Strongly CRITICiSED by Peak Hill F. & S. a Association "Wheat Farmers Will Put the Government In or Out"

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 3

There was strong criticism of the Government wheat Stabilisation Plan at a meeting of the Peak Hill Farmers and Settlers Association on Saturday night. Members present said that the Government would be robbing the farmers if the plan was allowed to become law…

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Narromine Teachers' Claim Farmers and Settlers' Aid

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 5

Support for an increase in teaches' salaries was given at a meeting of the Farmers and Settlers' Association in the town hall on Saturday…

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Wool Call-up

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 5

In the advertising section of Thursday's issue of "The Liberal" appears an announcement by the Australian Wool Realisation Commission calling…

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Farmers and Settlers Dubbo District Council Annual Meeting

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 1

Delegates from Dubbo, Narromine, Ballimore, Terramungamine, Mogriguy, and Eumungerie, attended an annual meeting of the Dubbo District Council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association of New South Wales in the Royal…

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Euchareena Sheep and Cattle Sale

The Wellington Times · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 5

Winchcombe [?] Orange and W. B. Edwards of Store Creek Gleensed auctioneers in conjuctions report a very…

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Wool Report

The Wellington Times · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 5

The Country Producers' Selling Co. Ltd. report: We submitted a good average selection of wools, drawn from the later shearing district…

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Victory Show Additional Cattle Classes

The Wellington Times · Thursday 28 March 1946 · page 1

The following classes have been added to the cattle section for Wettington's Victory Show on the 30th April and 1s May.—…

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Federal Wheat Program Five-year-plan Discussed at Coona

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 28 March 1946 · page 3

Draw attention to the Federal Government’s Five Year Wheat Plan, Mr. J. R. Sullivan, at the Castlereagh State A.L.P…

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Most Progressive Farmer

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 28 March 1946 · page 4

Mr. Archie Gardiner, 46 years’ old farmer, of King’s Prains, near Blayney, who is to make a six months’ tour of the US.A. where…

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Sheep and Wool Research Answer to Synthetic Fibres

The Western Herald · Friday 29 March 1946 · page 3

Sheep and wool research at Trangie Experimental Farm is to be speeded-up during the next 12 months. A wool laboratory and…

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Wool Report

The Western Herald · Friday 29 March 1946 · page 3

The Country Producers Selling Company Ltd. reported on the 21st March:—We submitted a good average selection of wools — drawn…

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Food For Britain Appeal Peak Hill Comes to the Rescue with Sheep

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 29 March 1946 · page 3

[?]Peak Hill will aid the Food for Britain appeal by collecting sheep [?] will be effered to the Sydney organisation with the suggestion [?] they be killd and sent to Britain as a gift from Peak Hill. If this [?] acceptable, they will be sold and the proceeds cr[?] to the fund…

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Wool Report

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 30 March 1946 · page 4

Goldsbrough. Mort and Co. Ltd., advise: "For our Appraisement No. 185, which was finally appraised on March…

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Wool Report

The Wellington Times · Monday 1 April 1946 · page 7

The Country Producers Selling Co. Ltd. report: Our appraisement No.183 was inspected for preliminary valuation on the 26th March,…

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