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Farming & the land, 1948

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£30 Million for War Wool To be Distributed

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Monday—Graziers will receive £30 million in profits from wool acquired from 1939 to 1946 under the war-time…

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Selling Lice Infested Sheep an Offence Under the Stock Diseases Act

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 5

A dealer who has repeatedly offered lice-infested sheep for sale was prosecuted last month at Parramatta Court for selling lousy sheep at…

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Woolgrowers to Get £30,000,000 From Wool Sold During War

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 1

Graziers will receive £30 million in profits from wool acquired from 1939 to 1946 under the wartime wool purchase…

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Graziers Will Get £30-M. for War Wool Profits to Be Distributed

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Sunday: Graziers will receive £30-million in profits from wool acquired from 1939 to 1946 under the wartime wool purchase arrangement…

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Review of Amazing Wool Selling Season Australian Cup I Ikely to Realise £145,000,000

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 6

The 1947/48 clip of the Commonwealth is likely to realise the record total of 145,000,000 in Australian currency, states the annual wool review issued by Messrs Winchcombe Carson Ltd. That amount exceeds by £52,664,060, the previous highest figure…

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Private Ownership of Farm Lands Adequate Safeguards Needed

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 3

With adequate safeguards, private ownership of farm lands makes for much, better utilisation of land resources than the…

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Next Year's Crops May Feed World

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK. Sunday (A.A.P.): For the first time since the warcreated shortage, a world surplus of grain above its present…

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Young Farmers from N. Zealand Visit Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. E. H. Graham) told a party of young farmers from New Zealand at Wagga…

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Better Feeding of Dairy Herds Urged to Aid Food for Britain

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 2

"The urgency of Britain's need for more fats warrants the utmost effort on the part of Empire farmers to exploit every avenue of production, and the only immediate increase possible so far as the…

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Private Ownership of Farmland Adequate Safeguards Needed

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 4

With adequate safeguards, private ownership of farm lands makes for much better utilisation of land resources than were the land retained by the Crown and merely rented to farmers. This is the opinion of the Rural Reconstruction Commission as revealed in its…

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Wool Quality Importance of Regular Sheep Classing

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 5

There can be no doubt about the eventual come-back of synthetic fibre and the menace they present to the wool growing industry, and…

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Wool Report

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 2

Goldsbrough Mort and Co. Ltd., Sydney, report: For our sixteenth sale of the season we offered a catalogue of 3083 bales…

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Wagga Special Sheep Sale

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 4

A special sheep sale, conducted by New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., of Wagga, was held in the Wagga…

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Wool and Money Large Finance Entailed

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 6

The strength or otherwise of the wool market is chicfly a reflection of the activity in the world's mills and the sale of their products…

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Wool Exports £120-Million for 10 Months

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Monday: Australian wool exports for the 10 months ended April were valued at £120,473,000…

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Wool Exports £120 Million for Ten Months

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tuesday—Australian wool exports for the ten months ended April were valued at £120,473,000…

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Tax Problem in £30,000,000 Wool Profits

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: The Government proposal to distribute, the £30,000,000 profit on wool acquired between 1939 and 1946…

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Graziers Will Get £30-M. for War Wool Profits To Be Distributed

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 5

Graziers will receive £30-million in profits from wool acquired from 1939 to 1946 1946 under the war-time wool purchase arrangement…

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Milbrulong Farmers in Accident Lynch Brothers Injured

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 4

Messrs. Jack T. Lynch and P. Joseph Lynch, two well-known farmers of the Milbrulong district, had the misfortune, to-day, to sustain severe…

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Oura Farmer Badly Hurt by Tractor

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 2

An Oura farmer had a miraculous escape from death yesterday afternoon when a two-ton tractor he was driving down a steep…

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