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Farming & the land, 1938

3,820 stories in Riverina's papers · page 42 of 191

Melbourne Wool Sales

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 8

Dalgety and Co. Ltd., Melbourne, report having on Tuesday submitted 5000 bales. The offerings, which generally showed up to advantage, included…

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Wool Withstands Crisis

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 8

The wool correspondent of the "Yorkshire Post" says that the fact is inescapable that throughout one of the most unsettled political weeks of…

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London Wool Sales LONDON

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 14

A fair selection, chiefly New Zealand crossbreds, offered at the Wool Sales to-day, met with active demand, especially from the Home…

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Wool Sales London Market Firm London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 1

A good selection offered at the wool sales to-day met with keen demand, the Home trade being the chief buyer. Ruling rates were generally maintained…

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Butter Production Still Declining in New South Wales London Prices Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 8

Butter production is still declining in all the States of the Commonwealth; but more hopeful signs are indicated in this week's reports which show that…

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Overseas Junior Farmers Pay Visit to Wagga Civic Reception by Mayor Excursion to Experiment Farm

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 5

In order to make a study of agricultural conditions and methods in New South Wales, four junior farmers, one each from the North of Ireland…

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Assault on Farmer Three Men Fined Ungarie

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 5

Before Mr. J. S. Balmain, S.M, in the police court, Wallace George Freeman, farmer, proceeded against Daniel Walsh. John Ryan and Harold Bland…

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Junior Farmers' Tour Wagga Reception

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 13

Four members of the overseas Junior Farmers' delegation to New South Wales tor the centenary celebrations are at present spending…

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Wool Report

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 4
Also in Daily Advertiser, The Gundagai Independent

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the 23rd instant. We submitted at our sale on…

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Commercial Melbourne Wool Auctions

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 5

The Melbourne Woolbrokers report that the average price price realised for greasy wool sold in Melbourne during the week ended March 26 was 12.40d per…

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Wheat Prices Slight Recovery in Melbourne Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 3

The depressed tone of the market for wheat in Melbourne was dissipated for the time being yesterday, when prices recovered by 1d to 1¼d a bushel…

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Fire at Collingullie Valuable Seed Wheat and Shed Lost

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 4

About dusk last night a disastrous fire broke out on the property of Mr. John Smith. "Posey Point," Gollingullie, his grain shed and smithy being…

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Japan and Australia Trade Agreement Completed Wool Concessions Tokio

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 1

interviewed by the Australian Associated Press, a high Government official confirmed that the draft of the trade agreement with…

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A Lifetime on the Land Reminiscenses of a Pastoral Pioneer Life at the Billabong in the Sixties Part 4

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 2

Resuming her story, Mrs. Cox said: "It was not such a very long time before our loneliness was relieved by the arrival of the Ross family, who selected an adjoining black and settled down to farming. Alexander Ross was farming…

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Pastoral Award Compulsory Conference

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 4

The term of the Federal pastoral award governing the rates and conditions of employment in the pastoral Industry of all States except…

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Wool Report

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 2
Also in The Tumut and Adelong Times

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on 23rd March: We submitted at our sale on Tuesday, 22nd March, a catalogue of 5824…

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Commercial WOOL

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 1

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. Ltd. report under date 24th March:— The buyers returned from Brisbane lost week-end, and the final Sydney…

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