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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

1,932 stories in Riverina's papers · page 19 of 97

Ill Treated Sheep by Lack of Water. Settler Faces Two Serious Charges

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 17 March 1954 · page 4

A Boorowa soldier settler appeared in Boorowa Court on a charge of having cruelly id treated, by torture, 200…

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Wool Growers in U.S. Sure That Costs Will Be Paid Eisenhower's Decision a Benefit to Australia

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 17 March 1954 · page 2

President Eisenhower's rejection of the Tariff Commissioner's proposal to increase U.S. duties on raw…

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Today's Homebush Market Sheep and Lambs Down

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 18 March 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday — The Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co. Ltd. report, that there were 19,158 sheep and 14,886…

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Butter campaign

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 3

COPENHAGEN, Thursday: Danish butter exporters are to spend about £130.000 sterling on a butter…

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Commercial Wagga Sheep Subset

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 7

The Associated Agents of Wagga—A.M.[?] and F. Cot, Ltd., Younghusband Ltd., The Farmers and Graziers Co-op[?]…

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Bulk Wheat Loading Meeting At Yanco

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 2

A meeting of wheat growers, carriers and others interested in the industry was held at Yanco yesterday afternoon to…

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Graziers' Support for Wagga Wool Week

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 3

There was a difference of £20 to £25 in the costs of raw wool and the finished article—a suit of clothes—and it was too much, Mr. J. M. O'Brien told a…

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Man Sold Wool Without Having Licence

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 2

For having sold wool on August 3, without a licence, Gordon Harold Greig, of Junee, road Cootamundra, was fined $2 with…

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Further Appeal to Vig. on Wheat Issue

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 2

MELBOURNE. Thursday:. The Victorian Wheat and Woolgrowers' Association made another appeal to the…

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For the man on the land To sell or to hold is Wheat Board's problem

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 6

The Australian Wheat Board is faced with a very difficult problem in regard to the handling of the huge stocks it has on hand from the last two harvests. It is a Question of…

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Lack of Rain Has Effect on Pasture Low Point in Wool Has Been Passed?

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 7

Hot dry days and the absence of follow-on rains in the Central West, South-west Riverina and Southern…

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Wagga to Have Its First "Wool Week" Big programme to commence on May 24

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 2

Wagga will hove its first "Wool Week" in May this year. This was decided last night by a representative meeting of rural, industrial and business organisations, in the M.P. and A.A. rooms…

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Bumper rice crop at whitton £4000 Harvest Anticipated for Community Centre

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 4

The fifty acres of rice sown at Whitton by a team of voluntary workers in aid of the Whitton Community Centre early last November, on a portion of land loaned for the purpose by the Kooba Station proprietary, has…

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Farm produce section at Leeton Show £25 in Prize Money

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 1

The Farm Produce section at the annual Leeton Snow has in the past been a miserable display, which in no way…

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Leeton Junior Farmers' Club

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 2

The annual meeting was held at the Band Hall on Tuesday, March 16 when 13 members were in attendance…

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Wagga's wool week

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1954 · page 2

The decision to hold a "Wool Week" in Wagga this year has everything to commend it, and Wagga is the ideal centre for the purpose. Designed to promote the sale and popularity of wool, it will…

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Record M.I.A. rice crop expected

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1954 · page 4

GRIFFITH, Friday: Australia's rice crop would be a record one this year, the manager of the N.S.W. Rice Marketing Board (Mr. C. E .Dalton) said in Griffith…

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Junior Farmers Return From U.s. Tour

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: Three Junior runners returned to Sydney today on the Orcades after an eight months' tour…

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Today's Homebush Market Lambs, Sheep Up, Cattle Down

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY Monday — The Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co., Ltd. report that there were 15633 sheep and 10,900…

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Class Stud Cattle on Display But Sheep Section Again Disappoints

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 1

Class stud cattle were on display at the Gundagai Show, and the animals exhibited in the Aberdeen…

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