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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1920

2,347 stories in Riverina's papers · page 79 of 118

The Vital Question Payments for Farmers' Wheat. Address by Mr. A. K. Trethowan. Meeting at Marrar

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 2 October 1920 · page 4

Cash payment of 10/6 per bushel to the farmers for wheat for local consumption, and a sporting chance on the 7/6 Government guarantee was…

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Soldiers’ Settlement Inquiry an Idle Butter Factory. Sydney

The Daily Express · Saturday 2 October 1920 · page 1

Giving evidence before the Soldiers’ settlement Commission, James McIverney, manager of the Group Settlement, at Oban, said a butter factory…

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Sale of Wheat Harvest No Contracts Yet. Melbourne

The Daily Express · Saturday 2 October 1920 · page 1

Senator Russell said today no contracts had yet been completed with exception of to Government for the sale [?] coming…

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The Farmers' Meetings

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 2 October 1920 · page 4

The Select Committee appointed by the Legislative Council to inquire into the conditions of the agricultural industry will deserve well of the country if…

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The Wheat Pool. Big Meeting at Junee. Farmers’ Want [?] at Weigh Bridge. Protest Against the Wheat Board Personnel. Junee

The Daily Express · Monday 4 October 1920 · page 2

The Railway Hotel, Junee, was the scene of a record meeting of farmers on Saturday, when Cr. W. S. Birke, President of the [?] Shire…

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Wool Sales. Opened in Adelaide. Fine Wool in Demand

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 October 1920 · page 2

Messrs Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., telegraphed as follows:— At Ute Adelaide auction sales which opened on Friday fine super wools…

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Wheat Harvest. Farmers Aroused. Big Meeting at Junee. Demand for World's Parity. Junee

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 October 1920 · page 2

A very large meeting of farmers, probably the largest even seen in Junee, was held at the Railway Hotel this evening. About 150 farmers were…

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Emancipation of the Wool Industry

The Daily Express · Monday 4 October 1920 · page 2

Unlike the wheat farmer, the wool grower has shaken off the shackles of the Government control from his industry, and is once, again free to…

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The Wool Market. Adelaide Sales

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 4 October 1920 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson received the following wire from Audelaide:—"American and French buyers…

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Wool Outlook Hand to Mouth- POLlCY LONDON, [?]

The Daily Express · Monday 4 October 1920 · page 2

Commenting on the wool [?] Messrs. h. Dawson and [?] state the chief feature of the [?] is adoption of a determined [?]…

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World’s Wheat Plentiful Supply Indicated. London, Oct. 2

The Daily Express · Monday 4 October 1920 · page 1

Mr. Board, of the W[?]at Commission in a speech at the Labor Conference at Westminster, said the prospects for wheat supplies are very…

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Colonial Wool Sales. Decrease in London Prices London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 October 1920 · page 2

At the eighth series of the London Colonial wool sales which closed to-day, there were catalogued 87,000 bales, of which 20,000 were sold to…

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Australian Wool Industry How Germany Views It. London, Oct. 3

The Daily Express · Monday 4 October 1920 · page 1

The BERLINNER TAGLEBLATT, discussing the serious condition of the German industry, says Germany is looking with anxie[?] upon the…

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Coreinbob Farmers. Liberties and Threatened. Ladysmith

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 October 1920 · page 2

In response to the request by the Minister for Agriculture for the forming of local committees to supervise the receiving, handling, stacking and…

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Wool

The Daily Express · Tuesday 5 October 1920 · page 4

Schute Bell and Co., Ltd., report under date 2nd October: [?] Adelaide yesterday about 20,000 hales were offered. Any really [?]…

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Argentine Wheat

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 5 October 1920 · page 2

Some surprise was expressed in Great Britain that a degree has been signed at Buenos Aires limiting the exportation of wheat and flour to 500,…

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Wool Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 5 October 1920 · page 6

Mr. M. Gibb, Cootamundra, has received a wire from Dalgety and Co., Adelaide, with reference to the wool sales, the first in Australia since the…

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The Wheat Board, Farmers' Representation, and Parity

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 5 October 1920 · page 6

The State Government's proposed method of marketing the coming wheat harvest has provoked a storm of indignant protest throughout the country…

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The Wheat Growers’ Protect

The Daily Express · Tuesday 5 October 1920 · page 2

The wheat growers and farmers of the Wagga district held an indignation meeting yesterday afternoon inrespect to the proposed treatment to…

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Wheat Question. Mass Meeting at Wagga. Farmers Aroused. Important Resolutions Passed

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 October 1920 · page 2

A mass meeting mainly of farmers of the Wagga district was held in the Masonic Hall, Wagga, yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of considering…

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