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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1932

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The Wool Industry Another Scheme Suggested

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Wednesday 31 August 1932 · page 3

That before wool prices can return to a paying basis, interest, labor costs, rail and sea freights and taxation must be drastically reduced was…

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Sheep Stealing Case

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 September 1932 · page 1

In the High Court at Sydney yesterday, the trial was concluded of Cletus Hamilton, Harry Smith, and Joseph Blewitt, who were charged with…

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Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 September 1932 · page 2
Also in The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal, The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal

The Farmers and Graziers Co-operative Co. reports on 31st instant: At our opening sale on August 30, we offered a catalogue of over 3,000 bales…

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Wool Reports

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 September 1932 · page 3

Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Co. Ltd. report:—We submitted a catalogue of 7,969 bales at Sydney wool sales on Monday last, which was…

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The Higher Wool Market Its Gratifying Tone

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 September 1932 · page 3

The most cheering feature of the opening Sydney wool sales was the general confidence denoted by the widely distributed competition experienced…

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The Higher Wool Market

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 September 1932 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:—The most cheering feature of opening Sydney wool sales was the general confidence denoted by the widely…

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Plenty of Wool Prospects Are Brighter

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 September 1932 · page 5

While the Wool inquiry Commission is seeking avenues of rehabilitating the industry, the trade is not so pessimistic of the market outlook…

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The Price of Wool Still Not Payable

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 September 1932 · page 4

Although woolgrowers are gratified at the advance in prices, they are hopeful that the gains will continue, contending that unless they do…

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Low-grade Wool for Roads Shires to Test in Moree District

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 September 1932 · page 7

A suggestion that low-grade wool could be, with advantage, used in road-making has created a good deal of interest among graziers in the…

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Wholesale Sheep Stealing Alleged

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 September 1932 · page 2

At Harden recently, before two local Justices, Albert Archibald Stuard (28) was charged with stealing 52 wethers, value £26, property of some…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 September 1932 · page 3

Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Co. Ltd. report—We submitted a catalogue of 9,006 bales on Monday, comprising a splendid selection of the…

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Pastoral Pasture Improvement Sub. Clover at Bungendore

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 September 1932 · page 4

The extensive pasture improvement work carried out by Mr. T. F. Rutledge, of Gidleigh Station, Bungendore, considerably impressed Mr…

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Wool Products Growers' Share

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 September 1932 · page 3

"Knitting yarn costs 16/ a lb., but all the grower receives from that is 2/. A suit of clothes costs £10/10/. For the wool in it the grower gets…

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Wool Market Competition Very Keen

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 September 1932 · page 2

The Farmers and Graziers’ Co-operative Co. Ltd., report:— At our sale of the 6th instant, we offered a catalogue, totalling 4.937 bales,…

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Where the Money Goes Taxing Wool

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 September 1932 · page 3

When the grower gets only about 10/ for the wool in a £10/10/ suit, what part of the £10 difference is swallowed up in taxation?…

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Australian Wool Increasing Coarseness Causes Concern SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 September 1932 · page 1

Professor Buckley, the world authority on wool, who arrived to-day in Sydney, stated that English manufacturers are expressing concern at the…

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Letters to the Editor No Combine of Wool Companies

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 September 1932 · page 2

Sir,—A witness giving evidence before the Commonwealth Wool Enquiry Committee on the 2nd instant, is reported in the Press to have stated that…

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Strong Wool Market

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 September 1932 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:—Competition showed decided strength and embraced all sections of buyers at our Sydney wool sale on…

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