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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1947

2,230 stories in Riverina's papers · page 19 of 112

Melbourne Wool Payments

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 February 1947 · page 3

Because of the settlement of the waterfront dispute in Melbourne, woolbrokers have agreed with wool buyers that wool sold at the…

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More Wool Received U.s.a. Situation

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 24 February 1947 · page 2

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: Receipts of wool in Australia for the seven months ending January 31 this season totalled 2,538,798 bales, an…

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N. Coast Entrant For Junior Farmer Contest

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 February 1947 · page 2

LISMORE, Sunday: Max Davis has Men Selected to represent the north coast in the competition to be conducted in Sydney on March…

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Labor’s Gift to Watersiders Farmers Ignored

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 24 February 1947 · page 2

“The Federal Government’s [?]handed treatment of waterside workers at the taxpayers’ - expense contrasts strikingly with its…

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Wool

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1947 · page 2

At their Sydney auction of 20th instant Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., submitted a catalogue containing for the most part well-grown wools drawn…

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Wool Report

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1947 · page 4

The Farmers and Graziers' Cooperative Grain Insurance and Agency Company Ltd. report having submitted a catalogue of 8,545 bales…

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Wheat Deal Attacked

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1947 · page 1

A tax "slug' of £2 million was to be imposed on the Australian public this year to provide cheap wheat for New Zealand, the secretary of the…

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No Permit to Travel Sheep to Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1947 · page 4

Patrick Conway, fanner, pleaded guilty at the Wagga Police Court yesterday to a charge of having travelled sheep from Yathella to…

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Lockhart Junior Farmers' Club

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1947 · page 2

It is understood that a new Supervisor is shortly to be appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the transfer of the former District Supervisor, Mr…

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Rural Life Endangered by Farmers' Neglect to Conserve Soil Clergyman's Challenging Address

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 25 February 1947 · page 4

RT. Rev. Msgr. Luigi Ligutti, M.A., LLD. (executive secretary American Catholic Rural Life Conference) lectured to an interested audience at St. Joseph's Club Rooms on Wednesday night, and although for his subject he chose well-worn themes that have…

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Wool Prices Advance 5 Per Cent

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 February 1947 · page 7

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Greasy merino fleece sold at 61d for 18 bales of Pleasant View/WC/Binda at the Sydney wool sales to-day…

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Nylon's Fight to Oust Wool, Cotton

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 February 1947 · page 6

NEW YORK, Tuesday: After steadily displacing silk in the American hosiery market, nylon is now battling with wool and cotton,…

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Wool at Gundagai Show of Highest Quality

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 February 1947 · page 2

GUNDAGAI, Tuesday: Mr. G. Sherd, of Albury, said to-day that the wool at the Gundagai Show was of the highest quality…

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Local Cattle

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 4

A line of 10 bullocks from J. and C. Rowe, Tumut made £24/2 per head and 59 steers to £16/12 avg. £15/4/7 at Winchermbe Carson's…

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Wool

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 2

Goldsbrough Mort Co. report: For our ninth sale of the season, we submitted a catalogue of 6804 bales, drawn from practically all districts…

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Wool Report

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 9

At their Sydney auction of the 20th instant Pitt, Son and Badgery Limited submitted a catalogue containing for the most part well grown…

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2/ Interim Butter Price Refused

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 2

CANBERRA, Wednesday: The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Pollard) in the House of Representatives to-day flatly rejected a…

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Creasy Wool Exports Doubled

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wednesday: Shipments of greasy wool from Australia in the first seven months of the financial year were nearly double…

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15 Cattle Studs Exhibit at Gundagai Show

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 2

GUNDAGAI, Wednesday: Fifteen well-known cattle studs were represented at the Gundagai Show to-day…

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Wool Exhibit the Best Ever

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 1

As befitting the great grazing district of Gundagai the wool exhibit was outstanding, and according to the judge, Mr George…

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