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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1950

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Outlook for Wool 'Never Brighter'

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 6

Keen inquiry for the balance of the current season's wool clip is expected, and it is doubtful if the outlook has ever been…

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Letters Marketing of Wool Regulation. Opposed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 2

Sir,—Some confused thinking appears evident in regard to the J.O. wool scheme and indeed in regard to wool marketing schemes…

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Fire Destroys Wool Store £300,000 damage

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.--One of the most spectacular fires in Melbourne's history to-night destroyed a wool store…

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Wool, Tallow Destroyed In £225,000 Blaze

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Thousands of bales of wool and barrels of tallow were destroyed by…

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Damage of £300,000 in Wool Blaze

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--In one of Melbourne's biggest and most spectacular fires for many years, a…

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Sydney wool bid was ¾d off the record

The Sun · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 3

Highest price of 160¼d. a lb at the Sydney wool sales today was ¾d. less than the record price of 161d. reached last year. The near-record price was paid by an English buyer for…

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Gen. Franco Seeks Wheat From Arch-enemy Marshal Stalin

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 6

MADRID, Tuesday. -- Bitter anti-Communist Spanish dictator (General Franco) is reliably reported to be seeking wheat from his arch-enemy Marshal Stalin…

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Gen. Franco Seeks Wheat From Arch-enemy Marshal Stalin

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 6

MADRID, Tuesday. -- Bitter anti-Communist Spanish dictator (General Franco) is reliably reported to be seeking wheat from his arch-enemy Marshal Stalin…

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Wool Touches New High 10 To 15 Per Cent. Rise

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 1

Wool prices rose 10 to 15 per cent, to record high levels at sales in Sydney yesterday. According to one trade expert there was…

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Boom Prices Maintained at Sydney Wool Sales 20 Per Cent. Bound

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 6

Continuing yesterday's spectacular rise, prices at today's Sydney wool sales went even higher and…

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Boom Prices Maintained at Sydney Wool Sales 20 Per Cent. Bound

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 6

Continuing yesterday's spectacular rise, prices at today's Sydney wool sales went even higher and…

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Uk to Pay Higher Price for Sugar Crop

The Sun · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 11

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Britain has offered to pay Commonwealth sugar producers 12 per cent more for their 1950 crop than the price paid in 1949, the Food…

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Neighbors Rebuild Burnt Farmhouse

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Mon.--Soldier settlers and friends are rebuilding the burnt home of Mr. David Asplin, a 32-years-old Edgarley farmer…

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Sheep’s Heads

Tribune · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 7

MELBOURNE. — A woman wrote to the Argus asking whether anyone could tell here “even one useful or good thing…

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Wheat Shipments

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 1

Provided there are no hold-ups' on the waterfront and that all railway trucks now being used to haul wheat are kept on the job,…

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Newcastle's Wheat Export

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 1

Wheat exports from Newcastle this season are expected to easily exceed last season's figures…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 11

At the wool sales in Sydney yesterday, 13,403 bales were catalogued. At auction, 13,364 bales were…

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Shipments of Wool

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 1

In the first four months of the current selling season, more wool has been shipped away from Australia than in the corresponding…

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Wool bids reach 156d

The Sun · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 2

Keen competition between Australian and overseas buyers forced prices at Sydney wool sales today to within 5d…

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Labor and Is Soldiers Results Speak for Themselves Wheat and Linseed Crop

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 2

A soldier settler on Edgeroi, near Narrabri, has harvested a wheat crop which averaged over 17…

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