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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1947

272 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 14

The World’s Need for Wool Goods Japanese and German Position

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 May 1947 · page 4

American authorities estimate that Japan has mill facilities to handle 500,000 bales of wool annually. So far little has been achieved…

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Improvement of Wool Quality Importance of Regular Sheep Classing

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1947 · page 4

The production of synthetic fibres is not likely to return to pre-war level for some years, but there can be no doubt about- their eventual come-back…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1947 · page 3

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. wired us as follows:—We sold 6,553 bales of wool at our Sydney auction on Thursday. prices being buoyant at the best point…

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Slow Sheep Travel

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 May 1947 · page 2

James Nimmo, for whom Mr. J. L. Maguire appeared, was charged with failing to travel sheep the required six miles per day. Mr…

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Branded Sheep Not His Own

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 May 1947 · page 2

Allan Clifton Davidson wass Allan Clifton Davidson wass charged that during the month of Queanbeyan he did brand two…

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Selling Wool in the Country Reply to City Attacks

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 23 May 1947 · page 2

In a statement today, Mr. Ray Bladwell, manager of the Goulburn branch of the Farmers and Graziers, replied to recent objections published in the…

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American Debate On Australian Wool WASHINGTON, Friday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 May 1947 · page 2

The House of Representatives debate on the controversial Wool Bill yesterday, mushroomed into a broadside attack by leading…

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Hospital Sheep Drive

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1947 · page 2

Sheep donated by Braidwood and district graziers and sold by Mr. Jim Simpson at New Zealand Loan and M.A. Co. and W. H. Whittaker's sale…

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Import Tax on Wool Elimination Sought From Bill WASHINGTON, Tuesday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 May 1947 · page 2

The Senate refused to agree with a provision of the Wool Bill imposing an import tax on foreign wool, and delegates from both Houses are…

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Branding of Butter Mr. Fadden's Criticism

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 May 1947 · page 1

Raising the question of Australian butter being sold unlabelled in Great Britain, the Federal Country Party Leader, Mr. Padden, asked the…

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Australian Wool American Legislation

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 May 1947 · page 1

Emphasising the importance to Australia of the wool industry, Mr. Abbott (Country Party) in the House of Representatives, raised the question…

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Italy's Wool Consumption Marked Recovery

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 May 1947 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: For a considerable period after the war because of shortage of wool and the difficulty of paying for requirements…

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FARMERS & Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance and Agency Company, Limited 20th May, 1947. Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 May 1947 · page 1

We submitted a catalogue of 7,100 bales on Monday, 19th Instant, comprising to a large extent Autumn shorn wools from the North-Western Plains…

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Wool Review By Winchcombe, Carson Limited

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 May 1947 · page 3

We have received from Messrs. Winchcombe Carson Ltd. a copy of their 58th Annual Wool Review, which covers happening of the year…

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Local and General Junior Farmers' Club

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 May 1947 · page 2

The advisory committee of the Braidwood Junior Farmers' Club met on Saturday, 10th May. Mr. Blacklock, District Supervisor, addressed the…

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U.S.A. and Wool a Question of World Trade

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 June 1947 · page 3

While United States competition has been a great force at this season’s sales and has exercised a considerable influence on prices, the…

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U.s.a. and Wool a Question Op World Trade

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 June 1947 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:— While United States competition has been a great force at this season's sales and has exercised a considerable…

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Ex-servicemen and Leased Farms Tenacy Law Causing Hardships

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 June 1947 · page 2

The Agricultural Holdings Act which was passed in 1941, and which, among other things, provides for extended notice to tenants for the termination…

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The Law on Weed Control a Publication Necessary to Every Farmer

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 June 1947 · page 4

It is a common fallacy among new comers to gardening that there is some quick and unlaborious method of getting rid of weeds, but farmers have…

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Overseas Farmers for Australia

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 June 1947 · page 3

“No part of the Government’s immigration plan provides for the encouragement of agriculturalists with capital to come to Australia…

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