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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1968

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Meeting on Wool Plan

The Western Herald · Friday 26 January 1968 · page 8

The Australian Wool Board's recent marketing proposals will be discussed at a number of…

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Graziers Association of N.S.W. Upper Darling District Council Wool Marketing Plan

The Western Herald · Friday 2 February 1968 · page 5

The Australian Wool Board's wool marketing proposals should be given careful and thorough examination as they had far reaching implications for the wool industry. Mr. K. P. Baxter,…

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Happenings Around Our Town More Reveries in a Wool Shed

The Western Herald · Friday 9 February 1968 · page 1

I remember that some years ago in my column I wrote what I called "Reveries in a Woolshed." I wrote of the feeling that seemed to come over me as I sat there. Me, in a reverie, the shed, silent and forlorn until the…

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Wool Meeting Yesterday

The Western Herald · Friday 23 February 1968 · page 14

A large gathering of District Landholders were in attendance at the War Memorial Hall, Bourke,…

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Wool Marketing Plan

The Western Herald · Friday 23 February 1968 · page 4

The Committee for the Retention and Improvement of the Free Wool Market met with…

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Three Days Sickness in Cattle

The Western Herald · Friday 23 February 1968 · page 10

Reports that ephemeral fever of cattle, also called three days sickness, has entered North Western…

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Wool Sales

The Western Herald · Friday 1 March 1968 · page 5

Prices for Merino wools were fully 2½ per cent cheaper at last weeks Wool Sale compared with…

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Wool Marketing Proposals Outlined

The Western Herald · Friday 1 March 1968 · page 1

A very representative gathering of Graziers was in attendance at the War Memorial Hall, Bourke, on Thursday, February 22nd, to hear the first of a series of addresses outlining the…

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Outline of Wool Marketing Proposals Continued from front page "The Australian Wool Marketing Authority"

The Western Herald · Friday 1 March 1968 · page 8

Mr. Loneragan explained that the Australian Wool Board proposed that an Organisation to be termed…

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Graziers Association of N.S.W. Wool Committee Report

The Western Herald · Friday 1 March 1968 · page 2

The Wool Committee of the Graziers' Association of N.S.W. has recommended that an incorporated, but non-statutory, multi-lateral organisation, should be set up to assume overall responsibility for marketing the Australian…

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First Cattle Sale For Year

The Western Herald · Friday 8 March 1968 · page 1

The local branch of Elders G.M. has shown every faith in the recovery of the district by listing the…

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Louth Graziers Assn. Opposes Wool Board Proposal

The Western Herald · Friday 8 March 1968 · page 8

A well attended meeting of seventeen members of the Louth Branch of the Graziers Association on…

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Wool Sales Proposals

The Western Herald · Friday 15 March 1968 · page 4

Same old stew, watered down and served up again!!…

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Namoi Valley Cotton Crop Promises To Be Best Yet

The Western Herald · Friday 15 March 1968 · page 4

With about 45,000 acres under cotton, Namoi Valley growers are confident that the record return of…

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Top Quality Cattle yarded at Bourke's First Store Cattle Sale for Year

The Western Herald · Friday 22 March 1968 · page 8

A very large crowd was in attendance at last Friday's Store cattle sale conducted by the local branch of Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Ltd…

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Neil Tapes Interview at Cattle Sale

The Western Herald · Friday 22 March 1968 · page 9

Picture shows NEIL INALL (left) A.B.C. Rural Officer, Orange, interviewing local grazier MR. DUGALD FISHER (Galambo) at last Friday's Cattle Sale in Bourke. Holding the tape recorder is GRAHAM WHITE, Assistant Director…

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Bourke District Exports Fodder Wool

The Western Herald · Friday 22 March 1968 · page 1

Photographed at the Bourke Railway yards last Friday are the above trucks loaded with baled sudax and wool. The sudax, occupied nine railway trucks and totalled 51 tons. It was locally grown…

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Wool Fashion Awards to be Shown in Bourke

The Western Herald · Friday 29 March 1968 · page 11

The Bourke Local Association of the Girl Guides and Brownies will bring a selection of the 1968 Wool Fashion Awards to Bourke. These lovely gowns will be shown at Parades in Bourke on the 10th and 11th…

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Branding Fluid to Aid Wool Industry

The Western Herald · Friday 5 April 1968 · page 3

A new fluid soon to be introduced into New South Wales for branding sheep will greatly benefit the…

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Workers Put Off Cotton Crop

The Western Herald · Friday 5 April 1968 · page 4

Special work in the recently established cotton growing industry in the Macquarie Valley has…

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