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Newspaper
Wagga Wagga Express
Location
Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 20, 1931
Page
8
The fortnightly sale at municipal yards yielded 9555 head including sheep and stores. Wethers and lambs were well supplied but values eased about 2d per lb compared with last sale. Dealers from Melbourne and locals attended amid poor road conditions and low turnout. Prices ranged for fats and store categories with Merino and crossbred stock in various weights and ages.
Special Cattle Sale Auntalian Mercante Land and Finance Co. Ltd reports a brisk sale at Wagea on Friday June 12 with 2086 cattle yarded. Floods and heavy rains curtailed turnout and about 600 head were delayed, yet demand remained strong and nearly all stock sold. Principal buyers were Western Riverina consignments. notable lots include 79 choice yearling Durham steers and 1600 northern cattle praised for quality. prices ranged from £4 to £6 10s for various lots.
Messrs Dalgety and Co. Ltd. report 46 600 sheep and lambs penned with wethers well represented and price ranges varying by class. Cattle yarded 1 706 with prime beef fair supply. morning sales steady with late prime light weights firming. Lambs show variable prices. ewes and hoggets drift lower. yearlings and beef categories listed with price bands across prime to plain grades. THURSDAY'S MARKET notes 51 280 sheep penned and cattle numbered 2 397 with overall firmish to unsettled movements and many price tiers across classes.
Prices of fat sheep for export at Newmarket sales on Tuesday rose to 1jd per pound for mutton and lamb with a July increase to 1fd. A Melbourne sailings Mongolia departed Tuesday with a full cargo of 30 000 carcases of mutton and lamb.
At Albury stock market on Tuesday about 9000 sheep yarded. Fat sheep and fat lamb values held steady with Merino and crossbred lines showing range 9/3 to 16/ for fat lambs and 13s to 18/10 for wethers. Comer back and store categories traded near existing rates while prices eased slight for some grades. Pigs also weakened with bacon requiring 2/8 to 2/15 and porkers 2 to 2/7.
Wool sales in Sydney this week featured most offerings paused in and the market hampered by weak demand. The majority of lots remained unsold, making it hard to gauge overall trends from this period.
Sheep turnout 60 410, down 1 028 from prior week, with mixed crossbred, comeback and merino wethers. Prices eased though some prime weights reached 24/4 for crossbreds and 18/8 for merinos. Lambs steady to improved in places, total yarding 25 050, down 1 146. Bullocks to 14/12/6, cows firm at several ranges, graziers active. shipping freights rise cited as market drag.
Woman kidney troubles often start after childbirth with strain on the kidneys. Symptoms like nervousness headaches dizziness and urinary issues arise from kidney impairment. Doan's Backache Kidney Pills strengthen weak kidneys and relieve dropsy lumbar sciatica rheumatism bladder inflammation.
At the final board meeting, the secretary noted the hospital’s new office raised patient contributions. For five months ending May the total reached £858 9s, up from £473 11s in the first five months of 1927, a year previously dubbed a boom year. In a separate incident at Albury, 17 year old Alexander Minchin’s pea rifle backfired. a bullet lodged in his abdomen and was removed in surgery.
A departmental notice warns mis measuring on farms leads to losses of birds and revenue. It highlights common errors using kerosene tins and lists approximate weights per quart for wheatmeal pollard bran lucerne meal maize and other components plus salts and supplements.
Opossums skins are prepared into cuats and bugs at 23 Baylis Street. The text notes that measuring by volume is unreliable for ration proportion and suggests testing and coordinating measures with weight for a balanced ration.
Minister Parker Moloney notes inter state export figures for apples reveal varied seasonal conditions. South Australia and Victoria show declines while New South Wales and Tasmania stay near last year totals and Western Australia more than triples exports.
The examination of frusta destinations shows that Denmark, South Africa, France via Dunkirk, and Sweden were the only countries to take higher quantities than in the previous season.
Mr. Justice Peetham, a famed jurist, asserts that abolishing extraterritoriality in China is not feasible at this time.
Government herds struggle to meet rising orders as requests for young bulls and heifers flood in. The Royal Agricultural Society notes a similar pattern across Jersey Guernsey Ayrshire and other societies with inquiries from NSW and beyond. Dairy farming expands near Sydney wheat belt city buyers pivot to dairy while big centres like Wagga Orange and Wellington see new farms. Demand also boosts stud Berkshire and Tamworth pig interest as officials consider expanding breeding programmes.
Frederick Ingram a laborer was charged with obtaining a car from Fox and Elliott by misrepresentation and fraud. The car, hired to drive around the town, was later returned after 120 miles with no payment. Ingram, who did not appear, was fined 30 shillings and ordered to pay 6 pounds compensation plus 3 shillings 1 pence costs.
At Goulburn police court two men were each fined 45 and ordered to pay compensation for obtaining food orders by fraud. One claimed relief for his wife and children though the children were married and away. The other sought rations for himself and nine children while evidence showed he milking 15 cows, wife owned four cars, and he sold cases for 15 pounds on the last day of relief. The King and Queen received a huge ovation leaving Windsor Castle for Ascot racecourse.
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