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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 17, 1944
Page
4
No clerical help available to record more than a limited number of accounts. Advertisers should prepay small advertisements in these columns at 1d per word. Minimums: 2 shillings for Entertainments, 1 shilling for other adverts. Casual adverts 4 shillings per column inch. Postal notes or postage stamps with copy accepted.
Notes from the late A. J. McDonald manager of Canowie Station passed to John Parker recounting early Canowie breeding choices. It describes Tasmanian fine wool influence, drought impact on merino selection, and shifts to high yielding wool while maintaining quality. Includes 1924 breeding ewe yields and lines.
A excerpt discusses Canowie and Wanganella merino lines, focusing on Donald Dinnie ram influence in South Australia. It covers ram sales, Canowie flock size, and the shift toward Wanganella blood, noting Buyer's preference for pure Canowie rams and the narrator's long study of stud breeding.
A Calumvie team visited Laura on Saturday March 4 and lost. Doubles winners ReichsteinWade 9-4, EvansHW Reichstein 1-2, WilsonGreen 9-8. Singles results include Reichstein Wade Evans Hillam and others with multiple close scores. Laura won 12 sets 110 games to Calumvie 7 sets 79 games.
Farmers inquire about corn sack supply with about 160 000 bales needed to last to April 19. Current landed stock around TAO bales ensures no alarm and full cover. The Commonwealth Wheat Board will import enough to maintain at least one year’s reserve. Corn sack price raised to 12/7 per dozen, plus 4d as storage and interest charge, not expected to continue.
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