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Farming & the land, 1954

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Gold hoard buried on Transvaal farm

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 15

JOHANNESBURG, Fri. (Kemsley).-- Mrs. Sybilla Smuts, widow off Field-Marshal Smuts, former South African Prime Minister, has just revealed that a fortune off nearly £A250,000 in gold is buried on the farm where…

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Gold hoard buried on Transvaal farm

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 15

JOHANNESBURG, Fri. (Kemsley). -- Mrs. Sybilla Smuts, widow of Field-Marshal Smuts, former South African Prime Minister, has just revealed that a fortune off nearly £A250,000 in gold is buried on the farm where…

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Gold hoard buried on Transvaal farm

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 15

JOHANNESBURG, Fri, (Kemsley). -- Mrs. Sybilla Smuts, widow of Field-Marshal Smuts, former South African Prime Minister, has just revealed that a fortune of nearly £A250,000 in gold is buried on the farm where…

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Gold hoard buried on Transvaal farm

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 15

JOHANNESBURG, Fri. (Kemsley). -- Mrs. Sybilla Smuts, widow of Field-Marshal Smuts, former South African Prime Minister, has just revealed that a fortune of nearly £A250,000 in gold is buried on the farm where…

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Pastoral Net Rises

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1954 · page 33

Profit of Squatting Investment Co., Ltd., pastoralists, was £116,507 in the year ended December…

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Wheat Farmers May Get Windfall

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1954 · page 14

A New South Wales member of the Australian Wheat Board, Mr. J. Cass, said yesterday that…

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Pastoral Profit Up; Less Tax

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1954 · page 12

Net profit of Squatting Investment Co. Ltd., pastoralists, at £116,507 for the year ended December 31, is an increase of £1,687, after a much…

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British Policy On Wheat Criticised

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1954 · page 10

LONDON, Feb. 5 (A.A.P.).—Mr. Hugh Gaitskell, a former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, said in the House of Commons yesterday that the Australian wheat crisis was an…

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'Silence' on U.k. Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1954 · page 8

LONDON, Fri.--Mr. Reginald Maudling today said Britain had given Australia no…

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Appeal by Minister Latest Wheat Plan Move

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1954 · page 13

MELBOURNE, Friday. —Senator G. McLeay to-day appealed to Victoria to agree with the…

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Sound State of World Wool Trade From Our Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1954 · page 10

LONDON, Feb. 5.—The chairman and Australian member of the International Wool Secretariat, Mr. Ewen Waterman, to-day said that the wool industry had never been in a…

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Wheat Crop Contest

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 7 February 1954 · page 13

PERTH, Saturday.—Winner of the championship in a recent wheat crop competition in Western Australia…

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Fewer sheep, cattle sold at Homebush

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 28

Prime sheep sold at 5s a head, dearer on an irregular market at the Homebush sales today. Good quality cattle were in short supply and values…

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Wool, Wheat Shippers Turn Public

The Sun · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 19

William Crosby (Holdings) Ltd. was formed today with a nominal capital of…

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Wheat Storage Problem Looms For Australia By a Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 2

The fate of the Commonwealth's wheat stabilisation scheme is still in the balance. Victoria, the only dissenting State, has submitted an amended plan and wants growers to vote on it. But some wheat authorities…

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Payment For Pool Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1954 · page 6

The Australian Wheat Board has recommended a second payment to farmers of 1/ a bushel for wheat…

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Wheat plan refusal by Victoria

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 February 1954 · page 24

MELBOURNE, Tues.-- The Victorian Government has again refused to join the five-year…

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Appeal On Wheat To Victoria Rejected

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday. — The Victorian Cabinet to-day rejected Senator McLeay's appeal…

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Letters to Editor Cattle Industry in Far North Practical Limits On Development

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1954 · page 2

Sir.—Your leading article of February 2, "Filling the Vacuum of the North," reviewed the ideas of speakers at…

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Wheat Quantity Or Quality: A Choice For Australia By a Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1954 · page 2

SIR John Teasdale, chairman of the Australian Wheat Board, believes the time has come…

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