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The readable portion shows mixed words and partial phrases with no coherent event or entities to summarize. No identifiable people, organizations, places, dates, or actions are clearly present.
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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 29, 1929
Page
7
The readable portion shows mixed words and partial phrases with no coherent event or entities to summarize. No identifiable people, organizations, places, dates, or actions are clearly present.
A garbled OCR item reports a Parkes meeting discussing fixing a minimum wheat price. Names, dates, and clear actions are obscured, but references to government intervention and industry concerns imply a debate on agricultural pricing policy and market support.
Graziers debated nontoxic methods for rabbit control and the ongoing pest problem. A motion urged landholders to destroy rabbit burrows within two chains of clean land, with safeguards to prevent reinfestation by reluctant neighbors. Railways and boards were urged to enforce eradication where feasible.
Mr David G Stead reports on the rabbit menace in New South Wales detailing its impact on land and products. The piece explains how familiarity with the pest has bred contempt and how it affects agriculture and economy.
Fragmentary OCR text indicates scattered names and phrases including Avon and references to a monsey event. readable parts are insufficient to determine a clear report, event, or outcome.
The article discusses rabbit-induced land degradation with grazing areas eroded by rabbit feeding, altering plant succession and soil. It covers noxious weeds control, police enforcement issues in sheep stealing, and a proposed Pastoral Science Research Fund to fund targeted studies and local cooperation with the Commonwealth Bureau of Science and Industry.
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