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Farming & the land, 1909

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The Wheat Market. SYDNEY

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 2

Rather more of New South Wales new wheat is offering than of late. A noteworthy purchase is reported, viz., that of 150,000 bushels landra new…

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Sydney Wool Sales. SYDNEY

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 2

A meeting of woolbrokers decided to-hold sales to-day, also on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week. The question as to further sales will…

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The Strike and the Wool Trade. SYDNEY

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 2

Owing to the uncertainty with regard to the shipping of wool, buyers this week found themselves unable to purchase under the ordinary…

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The Strike Executive Firm. Talk of a Coal Famine. Wool Sales to be Resumed. SYDNEY

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 2

Mr. W. M. Hughes, M P., says that if there is any attempt to strave the miners out the proprietors will find they have to deal with an exasperated…

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Farm and Station

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 3

The following applications have been lodged with the Crown Lands Agent at Tumut:—John Roland Quarmby, 150 acres c.p. and 45…

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Farm and Station

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 4

Notice of Approval of an Additional Residential Lease.—Joseph Hoskin, of Adelong, 11a lr 28p, county Wynyard, parish Adelong, rent £1/8/7, term 12½…

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On Farm and Station

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 2

Good wheat fields are expected in the Junee district. Although the grass in this district has browned rapidly during the…

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Farm Hands Organisation. To the Editor Wagga "Advertiser."

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 4

Sir,—Allow me space for a few remarks on your article of the 18th inst re the organisation of farm hands. In the at place you say that…

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Clerk as Farm Hand. Harmed Couple's Claim for Wages

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 3

A very smartly dressed young couple named Mr. and Mrs. Hodges, with nothing about them redolent of station life, sued Mr. Alfred Mate, of…

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Wool Notes

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 24 November 1909 · page 2

Wool Hales have boon resumed. Wool now being despatched by the railway authorities. Some of the Kimo wool was sold in…

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Shearing in New Zealand New Zealand Shearers and Other Pastoral Employees' Industrial Union of Workers

The Worker · Wednesday 24 November 1909 · page 5

The now combined union of shearers and shed hands in New Zealand has issued its manifesto for the coming shearing. The new constitution makes provision for the…

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Pinched Wheat. of Interest to Farmers

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 25 November 1909 · page 4

Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson and Co. Ltd. write as follows in connection with the market for pinched wheat:— "In view of the fact that owing to the…

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London Wool Sales. LONDON, Nov. 24

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 25 November 1909 · page 2

The wool market to-day was exceedingly spirited, with prices firm. This evening competition was brisk at from Par to five per cent, decline…

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Victorian Wool and Grain Store Employees

The Worker · Thursday 25 November 1909 · page 23

A mass meeting of men employed in the Melbourne wool and grain stores was held at the Trades Hall for the purpose of considering the advisability of forming a…

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Wool Transit. Questions in the House

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 25 November 1909 · page 2

In the Assembly to-day, Mr. Fitzpatrick asked the Treasurer what was the aggregate number of bales o wool held up at seveal railway stations in…

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The Wheat Market. Serious Block Feared. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 25 November 1909 · page 2

If the coal strike should last much longer and the train service in New South Wales be curtailed there wall be a tremendous block of wheat at a…

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Travelling Sheep Case. Gundagai Conviction Challenged. Prohibition Granted. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 25 November 1909 · page 2

In Chambers this morning, before Justice Sly, the mailer of ex parte G. Campbell, for a prohibition, came up for judgment. The matter was one…

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Warwick Farm Races. Wee Laddie a Winner.—Berber Scores When Backed. — Twirl Takes the Maiden Handicap.—Backers Have a Fair Day

The Worker · Thursday 25 November 1909 · page 17

The meeting held at Warwick Farm on Saturday was well attended, although Ascot was racing the same afternoon. The weather was perfect, and the sport passed…

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Wool Sales

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 26 November 1909 · page 2

At the wool sales to-day the market was very firm for all good wools at a rise of 5 per cent. It is reported that all other sorts were firm…

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Wheat and Chaff

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 26 November 1909 · page 3

New wheat 3/1l to 4/. Wheat was offered at auction to-day, but withdrawn, it in believed, through a report that the railway men were likely to be called out on strike…

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