Wool Notes Good New Year For Wool Trade
The New Year opens with strong signs for wool sales as December closes show full figures for merino, comeback, and crossbred classes. Japanese demand appears steady, tariffs boost imports of textiles, and Japanese fabric exports double in the first half of 1926, indicating growing domestic consumption. Prices remain uncertain, but margins and producer returns depend on factory to retailer pricing.
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Japan
T. Oliver
Beottish
British Isles
Odd items and figures from distant records
A quirky collection notes glycerine never freezes and rising child survival. It cites Heyfield Butter Factory November butter output 82 tons and supplier payments of £4500, then Poplars infant death rate drop from 186 to Th per 1000 amid crowded living. Victorian Railways paid £10000 for ideas with 1800+ adopted since 1923.
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Heyfield
Vic
Victorian Railway Department
Wool sales rise at Sydney with broad buyer demand
Demand was keen at the Sydney Wool Sales this week with American buyers present. All well grown fre wooly items gained about five percent over December, merino lines held par to five percent, and crossbreds met strong values. Notable prices: Ahalana Station Rownine 324 ON3d 80d, George Moffatt Armidale 30d, Fananboh Station Coonabarabran 2 id, Daniel Dwyer Dinalong 294d per lb.
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Sydney
Winchcombe Carson Ltd
Ahalana
Rownine
Stock Mystery Deaths At Gerogery
Mysterious deaths of sheep and cattle near the Gerogery stock reserve alarm residents and the Allbury Pastures Protection Board. A flock in transit saw 43 sheep die from a poison with arsenic-like effects. nine cattle later perished and two milking cows also died, causing ongoing district unease and travel restrictions.
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Gerogery Stock Reserve
Allury Pastures Protection Board
Reynolds
Wangaratta
Rome
Morven
Gerogery Reserve
Denver
Gerogery
Albury
Geromery
German Dye Industry Postwar Trade Shifts Hit World Markets
The piece notes that Germany once held a world dye monopoly with a 2.6 million double zehnten export in 1813 and that postwar disruption produced new producers in Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the U S. Germany now retains under 20 percent of its former export trade while Britain and America shift to absorbing scarce supplies.
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Perkins
Germaine
Germany
Europe
England
France
Italy
Japan
United States of America
Marjketa
Great Britain
Great Piritain
America
Sunderland woman claims million pound Rutherford fortune
Mrs. Lydia Richardson aged 82 of Sunderland King claims an estate of 1,000,000 left by Andrew Rutherford a successful gold digger from Perth WA She is Rutherford's young aunt and the daughter of his brother who settled in Sunderland
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Lydia Richardson
Sunderland
King
Ted
Andrew Rutherford
Perth
Rutherford
Diverse Local Notes From Midweek Dispatch
Fog has no noticeable effect on death rates from respiratory diseases in Middlesex County. Sunsey cinema screenings are blocked as the council rejects all applications. The female mosquito bites, the male feeds on plant juices. Vienna faces a cafe-led crisis due to tax hikes, with 200 cafes for sale. Miners near Ballarat strike gold, processing three tons of ore for 14 ounces.
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Middlesex
Eng
Vienna
Crisi
Black Hill
Ballarat
Wic
Government Battery
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Ita
Ween
Winchcombe Carson, Ltd
Winchcombe, Carson
Writs
Winchcombe Garson Ltd
Winchcombe House
Bridge Street
W.E. Oldfield & Son
Monaro Street
Queanbeyan
N.S.W
Farmers & Graziers Co-Op
Horthern Assurance CO
ETB Griffiths' Producers Co-Op
L “Rollin
Trojan
P.O
TOTAL
Federal Territory
Canberra
Canberra Building and Investment Co Ltd
Dickens
THE
Pheenix
Fublle
Charles Digkists
Phoanit
Part
Tibbs
London
Deneribud
Evenson
Mere
Agnes
Phoenix Assurance Co., Ltd
Fromes
Pitt & Bridge
Ando Commonwealth
Colonial Mutual Life
Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society
Liaveriem
Elizabeth Street
Byoney
Parkinson (Australia) Ltd
Five Dock
Universal Distributing Company, Limited
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd
Easants
Kertch
Sea
Avov
Russia
Seratch
Invest
Commonwealth
Red Hill
Blandfordia
Eastlake
Ainslie
Manuka di Civic Centre
Woodgers & Calthorpe
Ainslie and
W. Guard
C/o
Messia
Kay & McGiven
Monare Street
Henry F. Halloran & CO
Pitt Street
Letchworth
Hope Lawn
Karabar
Kenneth
Jerrabom
Berra, Carwoola
Environa
Torrens
Urick Premiaet
Henderson Road
Railway Station
Municipal Council
J. W. Burn
Eastlake Pharmacy
C. T. Campbell
M.P.S
Sele
Weldon Electric Supply Company, Limited
Kent Street
the Producers’ Distributing Society, Ltd
Clifford ST
Goulburn
Quay
Valentine Streets
Sydory
Cotter Walmer Pts
Jool
John Cody
Auburn
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