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Farming & the land, 1949

7,152 stories in Sydney's papers · page 75 of 250

Wool Chief in Sydney

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 3

Mr. J. H. Moolman, chairman of the South African Wool Board, on arrival at Mascot today…

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Ships Depart Without Wool

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 14

A DISPUTE in Sydney and Newcastle wool stores has resulted in 19 ships leaving without valuable wool cargoes…

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Record Entries Of Dairy Cattle Breed Classes Well Filled Jerseys Lead Royal Show Numbers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 2

DESPITE the difficulties being experienced by studmasters in obtaining suitable and adequate labor, a record entry of 1085 in the dairy cattle section is announced by the Royal Agricultural Society of N.S.W. for its Royal Show,…

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Record For Show List In Cattle

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 7

Reflecting the recent good season and the demand for high-class stud beef cattle, record entries…

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Procedure For Wheat Committee Election

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 2

DETAILS of the procedure to be followed in the election of wheatgrowers representatives to the State (N.S.W.) Wheat Committee were announced this week by the Electoral Commissioner (Mr. E. Bennetts), who will conduct tbe poll…

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Base Butter Costs on 40-Hour Week

The Land · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 12

THE central executive of the Primary Producers' Union decided this week that the cost of butter production be based on the shorter…

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Wool Worth £130.316,950

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 6

WOOL sales in Australia for the eight months of the current season to February 28 returned £130,3111,030…

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Rise In Russian Wool Buying

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 6

COMMONWEALTH Bureau of Census and Statistics reveals that Australian wool exports to Russia in the…

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Wheat Nations Urge Pact Without Reds

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Thurs.--Australia, Canada, and the United States are asking importing countries to conclude an international wheat pact…

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Southern Beef Cattle Aristocrats Parade At Gundagai Show

The Land · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 2

GUNDAGAI, Thursday.—The grand display of stock at the Gundagai Show yesterday clinched the Society's claim for the honor of the leading stud beef cattle exhibition in southern N.S.W. Entries from…

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Heavy Fall in U.s. Wool

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 14

U.S. domestic wool production has fallen from nearly 500,000,000lb. at the beginning of the war to…

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Upward Trend In European Wool Trade

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 7

FRANCE has been one of the most sustained buyers of wool in Australia this season. In all sections output of the French…

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Grower - Control Of Wool Marketing Sought

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 1

ONE of the moat important decisions taken at the annual conference of the N.S.W. Graziers' Association in Sydney last week was the approval of a producers' organisation for the marketing of wool when the Joint Organisation completes its work, probably in 1950…

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W.G.U. Candidate For Wheat Committee

The Land · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 15

At a meeting of the Southern Zone Conference of the Wheat Growers'. Union at Narrandera on March 9 and 10, Mr. J. M. Gollasch, of "Pine…

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India 'Hasn't Signed Contract For Wheat'

The Land · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 36

CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Indian Government had not signed a contract to take 25,250,000 bushels of Australian wheat at 14/8 a bushel f.o.b., Mr. Pollard said in the House of…

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Growers Demand Balance Sheet From Wheat Board

The Land · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 19

FARMERS were entitled to know what was done with their wheat, and the Wheat Board should give details of its transactions, Mr. R. Lowe said at the Culcairn District Council of the…

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Gundagai's Exhibition Leading Cattle Studs Show Sydney Royal Entries

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 7

BEEF cattle, representative of several of Australia's leading studs, assembled to make one of the best showings of their kind at Gundagai for that centre's 58th' annual agricultural and stock exhibition on Tuesday and Wednesday last. Exhibits in all sections were of high standard and warmly praised by the respective judges…

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Wool Returns Still at Record High Levels

The Land · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 15

THE average price paid for greasy wool at sales in Australia during February was 56,68d, per 1b., or 11.35d. higher…

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£130M. for Wool Two-thirds Of Season

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 5

Wool sold in Australia in the eight months ended February was worth £130.3 million, or, £35.6 million more…

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African Wool Board Chairman Due To-day

The Land · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 36

Mr. J. H. Moolman, chairman of the South African Wool Board, who is expected to arrive at Mascot today, will tour Australia before…

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