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Farming & the land, 1946

2,206 stories in Riverina's papers · page 34 of 111

Sheep Shearing Without Labour

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1946 · page 3

Recently there was a few articles on a method of getting the wool off sheep in Russia without labour or machinery. This is really not a new…

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Misguided Wool Exports

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1946 · page 1

Australia is sending woollen roods to markets where she can never hope to compete, Mr. J. P. Abbott, M.H.R. a member of the Australian Wheat…

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Special Cattle Sale at Wagga

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 7 May 1946 · page 2

New Zealand Loan and M.A. Co. Ltd. Sydney, and Younghusband, Ltd., Wagga, report offering a particularly attractive yarding of 2000 cattle…

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Scene at Sydney Cattle Show

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1946 · page 2

Jennifer Colman, aged 15 months, shows her appreciation of a fine Hereford bull…

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Watersiders Refuse to Load Wool

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Waterside workers to-day refused to load dumped bales of wool on overseas ships to Sydney, and 100 men were…

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Died in the Wool Characters

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1946 · page 4

FLORENCE RUBRICK, M.P. who has been murdered. ARTHUR RUBRICK, her husband, now dead…

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Farmers Cannot Get Tyres

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1946 · page 2

Criticising the present methods of distributing motor tyres and tubes, Mr. J. W. Seiffert, M.L.A., said he would urge the Federal authorities to…

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Shire Road Torn Up by Farm Machine Keen Discussions at Leeton Council Meeting

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1946 · page 3

At the fortnightly meeting of Leeton Shire Council, the engineer (Mr. S. D. Caldwell) reported that one of the roads in the shire had been torn up for a mile by a farming machine, and the marks…

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Road Damaged with Farm Machinery Council to Write Farmer

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 7 May 1946 · page 3

AT the fortnightly meeting of the Leeton Shire Council on Thursday night of last week, the engineer reported that one of the roads in the Shire had been torn up for a distance of a mile by a farming machine and marks indicated where it came out of a certain…

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Junior Farmers' Club News

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 7 May 1946 · page 3

THE Junior Farmers' film was screened at the Leeton Intermediate High School on Thursday last, and on Friday at Yanco…

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Sydney Stud Cattle Sale

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 May 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: An Australian record auction price for a Shorthorn heifer was paid to-day when Mrs. J. N. Laurie, of Gordonvale…

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Died in the Wool Characters

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 May 1946 · page 4

FLORENCE RUBRICK, M.P. who has been murdered. ARTHUR RUBRICK, has husband, now dead…

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Dispute Over Double Dump Wool Bales Six Interstate Ports Affected

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 May 1946 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tuesday: Sixteen ships, totalling 80.000 tons gross, were affected to-day by the dispute over the loading of double dump…

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Johnson, Miller New World Boxers Country Trainer's Success Won Double at Eagle Farm

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 May 1946 · page 8

Doubtful, winner of the Hamilton Handicap at Eagle Farm, Brisbane on Saturday, is trained by Tom Fitzgerald, formerly of Orange…

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Gundagai Cattle Sale

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 May 1946 · page 2

Dalgety & Co Ltd. Wagga, in conjunction with Gardiner & Macdonald' Gundagai report holding a special cattle sale at Gundagai on Monday,…

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Over-classed Wool

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 9 May 1946 · page 6

The methods adopted by graziers in classing their wool would have considerable influence on individual prices in the coming season, said a…

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Notes for Farmers Extended Use of Wool Canadian Buying

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 9 May 1946 · page 6

Marked advances in wool consumption occurred in various countries during the war. If maintained in peace-time they will…

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Died in the Wool Characters

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 May 1946 · page 4

FLORENCE RUBRICK, M.P. who has been murdered. ARTHUR RUBRICK, her husband, now dead…

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Record Prices for Stud Beef Cattle Concluding Sales in Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 May 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Two Australian record auction prices for Polled Herefords were paid to-day at the K.A.S. stud beef…

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Wastage of Fat Worries Farmers in Riverina

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 May 1946 · page 6

In view of the acute world fat shortage, farmers in Riverina who kill stock for their own use are perturbed at the wastage that is…

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