Experiments under natural conditions in New South Wales to determine the effects of improved pasture on fine and superfine wools have shown that although the improved pastures led to greatly increased wool production ...
Article : 423 wordsON MONDAY Very few centres report favourably on prospects for the opening day of the duck shooting season, Monday next. The chief ...
Article : 1,339 wordsTuesday, February 23, was the 32nd anniversary of Rotary International. The history of the movement was told by the executive chairman of the Australian ...
Article : 825 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Arrangements for the 1937 export of beef and mutton were made at meetings of the Australian Meat Board in Sydney. The chairman ...
Article : 634 wordsThis old print was among the documents relating lo the early history of Ballarat found in a drawer at the Ballarat Town Hall by the town clerk (Mr. G. F. Morton). It bears the inscription, "Cobb and Co.'s Leviathan, drawn by eight horses and carrying 89 passengers, running between Ballarat and Geelong. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 59 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—An elderly man wearing a straw hat walked into the office of the lay superintendent at the Adelaide ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 878 wordsEfforts to have milk clubs formed in most of the large factories and business houses in Melbourne will be made by the Milk Board as the first objective of its ...
Article : 333 wordsCriticism of the fixing of an f.a.q. standard for wheat was expressed by the Acting Premier (Mr. Old) yesterday, when he commented on the complaint by Mr. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,710 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.— A warning to New Zealand wheatgrowers that the Government expected full cooperation in production was issued to-day ...
Article : 76 wordsThe refusal of the Commonwealth Government to legislate for a compulsory levy on manufacturers to assist the international wool publicity campaign will ...
Article : 202 wordsThe possibility of building up markets in South China for Victorian primary produce was emphasised yesterday by Mr. G. F. Allen, who returned from Hong Kong ...
Article : 187 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—There was particularly keen competition from Yorkshire, and with good support from Japan and the Continent best lines of fleece and ...
Article : 96 wordsAs within recent months the Queensland Department of Agriculture has rejected two consignments of seed potatoes from Victoria on the ground that they ...
Article : 173 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.— Addressing 200 business men at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon to-day, Lord McGowan, chairman of Imperial ...
Article : 72 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.— At the third Napier wool sale 30,500 bales were offered, and competition was very keen. Prices generally were firm, but ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 283 wordsThe Australian Wine Board yesterday announced a new determination for the minimum price for wine in respect of which bounty is claimed as follows:— ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Canned Fruits Control Board yesterday increased minimum prices at which Australian canned pears may be sold to Great Britain. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe second series of the London wool sales for 1937 will begin on March 2 and conclude on March 12. The catalogue totals 75,800 bales, including the ...
Article : 63 wordsPrices realised for tea at sales to-day were as follow:—Broken Orange Pekoe, common, 72 cents to 74 cents; medium, 88 cents to 1 rupee 15 cents; good, 1 rupee ...
Article : 72 wordsMembers of the Horsham Agricultural Society will leave Horsham on March 1, and for a week will tour South Australia and nothern Victoria. They will visit ...
Article : 41 wordsFifty Years Blacksmithing KYNETON, Wednesday.—Mr. William Dettmann, of Kyneton, ...
Article : 79 wordsCRESWICK, Wednesday.—Stanley Shellew, a miner, who is working a claim with Frank Malone, received the proceeds of a crushing at the ...
Article : 109 wordsMrs. T. C. Crotty, who will shortly leave Ararat for Sale, was entertained by friends and presented with a gift. Before their marriage Mr. and Mrs. H. R. ...
Article : 264 wordsJudge Magennis, in the Bendigo Court of General Sessions on Wednesday, released Leslie Arthur Taylor, aged 19 years, eucalyptus cutter, and Raymond William ...
Article : 247 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Fewer sheep and lambs were yarded at the abattoirs sales to-day. The quality was fair to good. Competition was keen, but lamba generally were a little cheaper, while ...
Article : 229 wordsIn response to a petition bearing 400 signatures of interested ratepayers, the Country Roads Board has asked the shire engineer to prepare an estimate of cost for ...
Article : 125 wordsThe secretary of the Victorian Dairy Products Board announced yesterday that the quota for butter for consumption in Victoria in March had been determined ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. E. C. Peverill, secretary of the local Tourist Association, has received a letter from the South Australian Commissioner of Railways stating that he had consented ...
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Advertising : 349 wordsThe following licences were granted to road operators by the Transport-Board yesterday:— V. K. Carstairs, Lakes Entrance one ...
Article : 230 wordsThe contents of the five reservolrs of the Geelong Waterworks and Sewerage Trust decreasad by 34,000,000 gallons during the week. The storage now is ...
Article : 211 wordsAVOCA,—H. Chapman defeated S. Wood, 6-2, 6-4, in the final of the Avoca Tennis Club championship.—The Back to Avoca celebrations resulted in a profit of £29/10/. The ...
Article : 1,206 wordsThomas Coon, aged 47 years, dealer, as charged in the city court on Wednesday with having had insufficiennt lawful means of support. First-constable T. ...
Article : 238 wordsAmong the largest pastoral property transactions that have taken place recently in the Commonwealth are the sales of Poorale, of more than 800,000 acres, on ...
Article : 66 wordsCharies Constance, a young man, of Whalley street. Northcote, was fined £3 at the Northcote Court on Tuesday on a charge of having been drunk while in charge of a motor-car in ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 25 Feb 1937, Page 7
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