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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1950

2,503 stories in Riverina's papers · page 69 of 126

Site Chosen for Junee. Wheat Terminal Silo

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 August 1950 · page 3

The new wheat terminal silo at Junee is to be erected about one mile from Junee, on the South-western railway line. This was disclosed in a Mayoral Minute…

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Greasy Wool Cheque of £265,528,000

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 August 1950 · page 1

CANBERRA Tuesday: Australia's greasy wool cheque for the year 1949/50 was worth £265,528,000, according to the…

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Big Cattle and Sheep Entries for Wagga Show

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 2

The M.P. and A.A. announced yesterday that entries received in the cattle and sheep sections for the 1950 Wagga Show are…

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Kangaroos Drive Sheep from Hay

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 2

TAMWORTH, Wednesday: Kangaroos are presenting a menace in northern floodbound districts…

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Synthetic Fibres Danger to Wool Production

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday. — The Minuter for Education (Mr. Heffron) last night stressed the wool for improved wool…

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Questions and Answers on Federal Wheat Scheme

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 1

Mr Hugh Roberton, M.H.R. for Riverina, recently asked the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr McEwen), in the House of…

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Record Prices Expected at Opening Wool Sales

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 1

Information given to the “Independent” from reliable sources indicate that at the opening sales of the coming wool selling season…

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Records for Wool Tops Japan’s Extending Output

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 3

For a considerable part of the past season, confidence in commodity prices in the United States was less evident than in most…

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Wagga Sheep Sale

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 1

The Australian Mercantile. Land and Finance Co. Ltd. and the New Zeland Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd report a penning of…

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Shorn Sheep at Temora

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 2

Younghusband Ltd. report a smaller yarding at their monthly special stock sale, the condition of the road and paddocks…

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Wheat Board Chance [?] Stay

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 6

The Mu[?] for Comm[?] (Mr. McEwent said he would not reconsider has [?] to change the [?]…

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Good Wool Demand Bright Outlook

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:- Often in the off-auction period between wool selling seasons, a full in values occurs because of feelings of…

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New Wool Season-confidence in Prices

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 4

No nervousness is being fell in the present “off[?] period about the wool prices likely to prevail at the opening of the new selling season at…

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Fadden Says Growers Initiated Wool Scheme

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 1

CANBERRA, Friday — At no time and in no way had the Government sought to impose the Post-Joint Organisation…

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Wheat Sales and Stocks (“Review” Special)

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 2

The Australian Wheat Board recently sold 7½ million bushels of wheat to Egypt, at a price regarded as eminently satisfactory. This…

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Synthetic Products Will Replace Wool Claims by Professor

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 3

"Natural wool is next on the list to be replaced by a synthetic product made from petroleum," Professor T. G. Humor said last Monday in an…

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Selling Company Country Producers' Despite No Killing at Abattoirs, Cattle Up

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 7

The Country Producers' Selling Co. Ltd. reports the following sales at Homebush on July 31st. Sheep: 6,106 sheep, 7,037 lambs…

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Officials to Tour Soldier Settlements Estimation of Reduction In Wheat Acreage

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 2

The District Agronomist, Mr. J. G. Ballantyne and Mr. F. J. Nicholson, will make a tour of soldier settlements in the area during the…

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Riverina Sheep Nuts for Flooded Areas Special Trans-Australia Airlines Freighters Fly from Narrandera

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 2

On Monday morning last Riverina Sheep Nuts Pty. Ltd., in co-operation with leading wool firms and Trans Australian Airlines arranged for…

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Closing Hours of Butcher Shops Letter to the Farmers and Settlers’Association

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 1

Mr. H. W. H. C[?]bert, hon secretary on the Murrumbidgee District Council of the Farmers and Setters Association, [?] received the…

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