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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

2,090 stories in Riverina's papers · page 55 of 105

Earlier Wool Arrivals Appraisements This Month

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 10 July 1942 · page 1

As a result of earlier arrivals of wool under the zone shearing system, the new season’s appraisemnts are to commence in Sydney on July a, three weeks before…

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Herd of Cattle Trapped in Southern Mountains Drovers Missing

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 July 1942 · page 3

Seven hundred head of cattle belonging to Earls Court Estate are trapped somewhere in the snow between Adaminaby and…

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Wheat Pool Delivery Date Fixed Warning to Growers

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 July 1942 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday, — The State superintendent of the Australian Wheat Board (Mr. E. A. H. Holborrow) says that August 15 had…

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Local News and General Items Kicked Sheep -- Fined a Fiver

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 10 July 1942 · page 2

At Bourke is heater kicked a sheep which struggle after being cut, charged with a treating the animal he was fined to…

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Dairy Farmers Call for Statistical Returns Production and Manpower Problem

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 July 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday, — With a view of increasing production in the Commonwealth, more than 90,000 dairy farmers were being…

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Coupons for Wool Wanted or Scheme Will Fall Down

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 10 July 1942 · page 4

An application for a special issue of clothing coupons so that wool can be purchased, will be made by the Illabo Saire…

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Wheat Agreement Signed by Export Countries and Britain to Control Production

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 10 July 1942 · page 1

The Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, announced last week, that a wheat arrestment had been concluded in Washington between the Governments of Argentina,…

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Wool Matters The Increased Price Address by Mr. E. H. HAMBLIN

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 10 July 1942 · page 1

Mr. E. M. Hamblin small growers’ representative on the Wool Board gave the following address at the meeting of the Murrun[?] District Council of the…

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Farmers & Settlers' Association Colinroobie Branch Annual Meeting

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 10 July 1942 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Colinroobie blanch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held in the Colinroobie Hall on the afternoon of…

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Crop Prospects Favorable Weather Conditions

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 July 1942 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday,—The Department of Agriculture, in its crop report for June, states that with the exception of an area in…

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Farmers & Settlers’ Association Murrumbidgee District Council Annual Meeting

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 10 July 1942 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Murru[?] bridge District Council at the Famers and Settlers’ Association less held in the Criterion Hull. Narandera, recently,…

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Mobile Farm Units Being Considered for Rural Work

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 10 July 1942 · page 1

As a means of meeting rural labor shortages, the Commonwealth and State Governments are considering a scheme for the…

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Farmer Dies From Injuries

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 July 1942 · page 2

Mr. Robert Northey, aged 65 years, of Huon (V.), whose arm was caught in a piece of farming machinery on his property on…

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Manpower Problems Questionnaire for Farmers

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 July 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday. — It was announced to-day by the Deputy-Director of Manpower (Mr. Belle-more) that local committees were…

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May Have To Use Less Butter

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 July 1942 · page 2

BRISBANE, Sunday.—The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Bulcock) made it clear to-day that Australians will have to use less butter…

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Wool Rue Will Benefit "Big" Men

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 13 July 1942 · page 1

Information received in Junee indicates that the recent 2d a pound rise in the price of wool is not going to be all that it…

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Successful Auction Sale of Dairy Herd

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 13 July 1942 · page 3

Messrs. Southwell Bros, held a most successful sale on Saturday on account of toe estat c of the late Robert O'Neill, when a large dairy…

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Wool Clip Early Appraisements

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 14 July 1942 · page 4

Winuhcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— As a result of the earlier arrival of wool because of zone shearing…

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What War Workers Owe to the Sheep

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 14 July 1942 · page 1

Few people realise how much defend on sheep for many of modem necessities. Apart from being one of the world's most important…

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The Cry From Britain for Butter Must Not Go Unheeded Earnest Appeal to Dairymen and Those Who Can Help

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 July 1942 · page 3

BECAUSE of the circumstances of war, we find many things importantly related to others, although to the unobservant, they may appear fields apart. There is no better illustration of that than the pressing need for supplies of butter for Britain, which is one of the…

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