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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1958

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National Sheep Dog Trials

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 February 1958 · page 5

Schedules for the National Sheep Dog Trial Championships which will be held in Canberra - between the 14th…

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Local Wool Clips Sold

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 February 1958 · page 3

On Tuesday 11th February, New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., brought forward a catalogue totalling…

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Shire’s Support for Goulburn Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 February 1958 · page 3

Yarralumla Shire Council will wholeheartedly support any move to retain Goulburn as a wool-selling centre. A unanimous motion to this…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 February 1958 · page 4

Dalgety and Co. Ltd. report that values for all average to inferior Merino, Comeback and Crossbred wools…

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Firm Market For District Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 February 1958 · page 4

The fifth series of Goulburn wool sales for the current season were held on Wednesday and Thursday, February 19…

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Growers Fighting for Whole Wool Market

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 February 1958 · page 4

Southern wool-growers were fighting for the future of the whole wool market and not only Goulburn Wool Selling Centre, Mr. P. J. B. Osborne said his week…

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Junior Farmer New Zealand Tour Winner

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 February 1958 · page 4

Mr. Brian Keech, of “Oakfield,” Lawson’s Creek, Mudgee, has been chosen as the winner of the Junior Farmer New Zealand Tour Contest sponsored by the Bank of New South Wales. His prize will be a…

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Local Wool Clips Sold

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 March 1958 · page 3

Pitt Son & Badgery, Ltd. report haying obtained at their Sydney wool auction of February 25 the top price of…

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New Project for Junior Farmer Area

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 March 1958 · page 1

A new project soil fudging, may be introduced into Junior Fanner Club activities in this area. This was hinted at the last…

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Junior Farmer Farm at Bega

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 March 1958 · page 4

Bega Rotary Club has to its credit the establishment of a Junior Farmers' cattle farm at Bega…

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Goulburn Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 March 1958 · page 2

The sixth series of sales were held in Goulburn on Wednesday, March 12, when a catalogue of 8,200 bales of…

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Record Entries For Sheep Dog Trials

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 March 1958 · page 4

A! world record number of sheep dogs have been entered for the National Sheep Dog Trial Championships to be…

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Worms in Sheep are a Problem

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 March 1958 · page 4

Worms in sheep are a problem which has to be faced, sooner or later, by most graziers. “It is a problem which can…

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Nsw Rangers May Permit Cattle Entry to Victoria

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 March 1958 · page 4

Rangers with the Pastures Protection Boards now authorised to issue health certificates for the entry of…

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Wool Dispute Raised by Allan Fraser in Federal Parliament

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 March 1958 · page 4

Mr. Allan Fraser, MHR, raised the Goulburn wool dispute in the House of Representatives last week. As a result the Minister for…

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B.B.C. Helps Farmers

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 March 1958 · page 4

[?] discusses with pig herdsman Joe Ball some of the problems of pig breeding in Britain today for a “Harvest Home” programme broadcast in the BBC’s General Overseas Service…

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D. Mc Innes New President of Junior Farmers

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 March 1958 · page 4

President of the Queanbeyan Junior Farmers’ Club for the next year will be D. Mclnnes…

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Political Intervention in Wool Dispute!

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 April 1958 · page 1

“All wologrowers will hope that parties interested in the Goulburn Wool Selling Centre dispute will be able to solve their differences before the necessity of political intervention.” This was the statement…

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Touring New Zealand Farmers Pay Social Call on Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 April 1958 · page 1

A large contingent of young New Zealand farmers was entertained in Queanbeyan by Yarralumla Junior Farmers on Friday night. The contingent, comprising…

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This Week in Wool World Wool Outlook Brighter

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 April 1958 · page 4

As wool markets at Newcastle and Geelong open the final weeks selling for the season, the trade is anxiously assessing portents of confidence on which to base Its plans to cover raw wool requirements till the first shipments of the new season’s clip…

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