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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1956

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Wool Market Holding Firm

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 5 January 1956 · page 1

Winchcombe [?] Ltd. report the first half of the Australian [?] selling [?] closed with the market…

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Wool Worths 200 STORES Mighty Growth in 31 years

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 January 1956 · page 2

In the space of only 31 years Woolworths have grown from a bargain basement in the Imperial Arcade Sydney into one of the biggest…

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Wool Market Holding Firm

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 January 1956 · page 1

Wool [?] report good competition at the [?] sales of the second half of the wool seiling season in…

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Beef Prices Down, Sheep Up. Stock Sold Well At Young Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 January 1956 · page 4

A very large crowd attended J. A. Barton & Company’s opening stock sale for the year on Tuesday at the There were more cattle…

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205½ Pence for Gininderra Fleece Goulburn Wool Sales Bring Record Price

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 January 1956 · page 1

The fourth series of Goulburn wool sales for the current season were held last Wednesday and Thursday and brought the Australian record price of 205½d. Farmers and Graziers…

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Sydney Wool Market Firm

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 January 1956 · page 1

The market remained fully firm for all descriptions [?]ormer no, comeback and crossbreds at Sydney wool sales…

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Despite Waterside and Overseas Competition World Buyers bidding Confidently for Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 January 1956 · page 4

In spite of the ominous situation on the waterfront and its implications to the continuity of the wool sales, wool again moved perceptively in sellers’ favor this week at Newcastle, Goulburn and Melbourne…

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Junior Farmer

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 January 1956 · page 1

[?] junior farmer Hugh Charlesworth 22 will represent this district in a national quizz contest to be conducted…

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Girl Junior Farmers Beat Boys Won all Awards at Field Day

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 January 1956 · page 3

Queanbeyan district girl junior farmers [?] prominent among prize winners at the third annual field day at Pylara Polled hereford Stud, Tarago, on…

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Waterfront Strike affects Wool Market

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 February 1956 · page 1

For the third time in little more than 12 months, wool sales in Sydney have been dis-sales by industrial disputes…

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Goulburn Wool Sale Postponed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 February 1956 · page 2

Wool sales scheduled for to-morrow Wednesday and Thursday at Goulburn, have been postponed;…

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Record Prices for New Central Saleyards Total Clearance at Annual Sheep Sale

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 February 1956 · page 2

Record prices for the new Queanbeyan Canberra Central Saleyards were secured by Woodgers and Calthrope Limited at the annual surplus sheep sale last Thursday Woodgers & Calthrope…

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Wool Sales Resumed Last Week Sydney Market Firm After Big Strike Ends

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 February 1956 · page 3

In a very sound market dominated by the vogorous buying by Japan, all descriptions except the very best wools continued firm at Sydney wool sales last week…

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Farmers and Graziers Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 March 1956 · page 1

The Farmers and Graziers’ Co-operative Gram Insurance and Agency Company Limited 28th February, 1956, Wool…

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Wool Sales Values Firm

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 March 1956 · page 3

Winchcombe [?] Ltd., report having sold 8,360 bales of wool at Sydney auctions on Monday…

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This Week in Wool from Round the World Wool Prices Fall at Brisbane & Melbourne

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 March 1956 · page 4

For the first time since the new year, wool prices this week at Brisbane and Melbourne recorded tin average fall of 1d to 2d per clean pound over all qualities. Dalgety’s New Service…

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Stud Cattle Released from Quarantine

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 March 1956 · page 4

Several Sydney consignments of stud cattle ex the “Canopic” which unloaded in Melbourne under the…

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Dalgety’s Wool Report From Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 March 1956 · page 4

When Dalgety’s closed their Sydney wool sales on Thursday values were fully firm for all except medium and coarse…

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N. Z. L. Wool Sale Report From Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 March 1956 · page 2

On Monday, March 5, New Zealand Loan & Merchant Agency Co. Ltd., brought forwards a catalogue totalling…

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This Week in Wool Cautious Tone in Recent Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 March 1956 · page 4

Broad wools continued their downward trend this week in Sydney and Adelaide as the buoyant tone of recent markets changed to one of caution. This was reported today by…

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