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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

384 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 15 of 20

Value of Sheep Industry American Competition

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 September 1942 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:— The Australian sheep industry, with wool production now worth £70,000,000 and the stock slaughtered can be…

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Dairy Industry’s Plight 1,000 Farms Idle

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 September 1942 · page 3

A thousand dairy farms in New South Wales are idle or have been diverted to other production. The Parliamentary Committee on Rural…

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A Great Industry Founders of Australia's Wool Prosperity (Continued). Careful Breeding

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 September 1942 · page 1

In the "Economist" of July 27, 1866 a correspondence was published between Sir William Macarthur (a son of the pioneer) and a Victorian…

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Wool and Substitutes Heavier Bales

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 September 1942 · page 3

In the United States mills are permitted to use regulated quantities of wool for civilian goods, but by blending with artificial fibres can…

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Rationalisation of Wool Industry Statement by Chairman Woolgrowers' Council

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 September 1942 · page 1

Referring to the proposed rationalisation of the wool industry, as announced by the Minister for War Organisation of industry (Hon. J. J…

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Federal Pastoral Award

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 September 1942 · page 2

On September 21 Judge O’Mara, in the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, considered an application for “ A Common Rule ”…

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Spring Cattle Sale

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 September 1942 · page 2

Saturday will be a big day in Braidwood when there will be a big influx of people for Schute Bell Badgery Lumby's big spring cattle sale…

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WOOl REPORT

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 September 1942 · page 3

Although wool allocations this season have been checked to some extent by difficulties of transport and the manpower shortage,…

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Local Wool

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 September 1942 · page 2

At Winchcombe, Carson's Sydney appraisement last Tuesday William R. McDowall, Braidwood, secured ewes 19¾, 17¼d. In pieces 13¾d. In the same…

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Rationalisation of the Wool Industry

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 September 1942 · page 3

The Minister for War organisation of Industry has asked the Australian Woolgrowers’ Council and the Graziers’ Federal Council to…

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Wool and Substitutes Heavier Bales

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 September 1942 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:— In the United States mills are permitted to use regulated quantities ol wool for civilian goods, but by…

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Wool Revenue One of the Nation’s Greatest Assets

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 September 1942 · page 2

“The wool Australia has produced since the war. plus the current season’s production, can be safely estimated to provide £260,000.000 for the…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1942 · page 1

The Fanners & Graziers' Co-op. Co, Ltd., reports on the 24th inst.:—We submitted our Appraisement Catalogue No. 86 on the 22nd instant,…

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Butter Price Must Be Increased

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 September 1942 · page 3

“Advices from the dairying centres of this State, and also from further afield, indicate that dairymen everywhere are up in arms…

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Shearing of Sheep National Security Regulations

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1942 · page 4

Every person (being the shearing contractor where flock sheep, as defined by the National Security Shearing of Sheep). Regulations were or…

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Rationalisation of the Wool Industry

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1942 · page 4

The Minister for War Organisation of Industry has asked the Australian Woolgrowers' Council and the Graziers' Federal Council to express their…

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The Wool Industry Great National Asset

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 2 October 1942 · page 1

Speaking at the annual meeting of Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., last week, Mr. Harold Bell, Chairman of Directors, said:—…

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Wool and Stock Prices War-time Levels

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 2 October 1942 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., write:—The price of all goods has been more effectively kept in check during the war than in the 1914-18 period…

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War Simplifies British Farm Vehicles Standard All-steel Wheels

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 October 1942 · page 3

Thirty thousand more farm vehicles, wanted by British farmers for this year’s harvest, will be fitted with new standard…

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Wool Transport Problem Less Bales

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 October 1942 · page 3

The New South Wales clip is arriving at the seaboard in much slower volume, the receipts at the Sydney stores to date still being…

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