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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

3,443 stories in Riverina's papers · page 44 of 173

For Urgent Attention Wagga As a Dairying Centre

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 March 1931 · page 4

A tour around the wonderful district must convince the most casual of the suitability of this district for the successful carrying on of dairying…

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£4,000,000 For Farmers South Australian Scheme

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 21 March 1931 · page 16

A bill to provide sustenance for necessitous farmers and to enable them to put in next Season's crop was introduced on Tuesday in the south…

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Country Party Plan Help for Farmers

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 21 March 1931 · page 2

During the debate in the House of Representatives on Wednesday night [?] Mr. Theodore's fiduciary currency proposal, Dr. Earle Page put forward…

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Sheriff's Sale Stopped Farmers' Determined Stand

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 21 March 1931 · page 10

The announcement that the sheriff would sell by auction on Monday, March 16, the stock and plant of a Rand farmer caused consternation…

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Southern Wool

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 March 1931 · page 4

Offerings at Winchcombe, Carson's wool auction in Sydney on Thursday included owe and weather fleeces from Mt. John. Robert Smith, Ladysmith,…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 March 1931 · page 4

Pitt, Son, and Badgery, Ltd., Sydney, report that at the Sydney wool sales they submitted an attractive catalogue of 3,686 bales. Every lot…

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Seen by a Farmer Near Yea Melbourne

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 23 March 1931 · page 1

A farmer a mile outside Yea reports that he saw the monoplane at 4.30 on Saturday. It was flying exceptionally low over the trees, the visibility was…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association the Book Branch Meets

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 March 1931 · page 4

A meeting of The Rock branch of the Fanners and Settlors' Association was held on March 14. Those present were Messrs. Joseph Johnston,…

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The War on Waste Farmers' Move for Economies

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 March 1931 · page 4

I have already publicly stated that Dr. Earle Page's idea of secession will serve no good purpose as it aims at a constitutional impossibility, and…

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Items of News Farmers and Settlers' Association

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 March 1931 · page 2

Owing to tho inclement weather, the annual meeting of the Wagga District Council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association which was to…

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Public Opinion. Grow More Wool? to the Editor

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 2

Sir,—I understand the Country Women's Association here hold the stall for a display of knitted woollen articles at the Show, to advise the…

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Sydney Wool Sales Greasy Merino 31½d Record for Season Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 2

0Amid exciting scenes, the record price for the present season of 31½d a pound was paid for greasy merino fleece at the…

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Help for Farmers Supply of Superphosphate Minister Negotiating

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 4

In the Legislative Assembly on Thursday, Mr. Kilpatrick (C.P.) asked the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Dunn), whether, in view of the passage…

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Sheep and Lams Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1931 · page 2

The A.M.L. and F. Co., Ltd., reported on 23rd: There were only about 18.700 sheep and lambs penned for to-day's sales, the quality generally…

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Chicago Wheat Lowest Level Since 1895. CHICAGO

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1931 · page 1

Chicago wheat quotations dropped to the lowest level since 1895 yesterday, sagging 11 cents a bushel on the 1931 crop options…

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Chicago Wheat Lowest Level Since 1895 CHICAGO

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 March 1931 · page 2

Chicago wheat questions dropped to the lowest level since 1895 to-day sagging 11 cents a bushel on the 1931 crop…

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Markets Abroad Prices of Primary Products in Other Countries Liverpool Wheat Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 March 1931 · page 3

A private wheat agent in Sydney has received the following cable message front Liverpool: "Unchanged; sold parcel South Australian afloat…

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Necessitous Farmers Additional £100,000 Settlers Outside R.I.B. Government Grant SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1931 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

Replying to Mr. Flannery (Lah.) in the Assembly, the Minister for Agriculture said that the Treasurer had agreed to advance an additional…

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Thinking Pig Advice to Wheat Growlers

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 26 March 1931 · page 7

The present ruinous price of wheat has most farmers in a desperate plight, and they have been clutching at any dud suggestion that our political…

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