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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 08, 1910
Page
5
Each head of the Company directly contents a department of the business, and places attention on disposal of consignments. The company sells only wool and produce, with directors and staff focused on securing entire satisfactory consignments. Office, 44 Bridge Street, Sydney.
A pleuro outbreak disrupted stock movements from Queensland into New South Wales. About late September 2000 cattle crossed the border, reached Bourke by road after nine days, and were auctioned at Albury on October 20 with 1000 sold locally and the rest distributed to Deniliquin Euston and Behue. Quarantine and inoculation efforts followed, with about 40 animals destroyed and remaining stock under treatment.
The firm disposed of 357 horses at a respectable average price of £16 11s. The sale stands as a distinct and qualified record for Orange.
At Gilgandra last week the Land Board examined the conversion of settlement leases. Semler sought to convert 2727 acres at the gazetted 25s per acre, but District Surveyor noted lease value now 33s per acre and the £3000 limit reduces convertible area to 1818 acres. Law ambiguity led the Board to refer the point to the Land Appeal Court for ruling.
Government experimental plots on Mr. Forge's Tamworth farm were harvested after frost. Results show several varieties yielding between 1.5 and 6.3 bushels per acre, with Bayah improving from 6.30 to 8.42 when given superphosphate and manure. The manure cost 2 shillings 6 pence per acre and raised over two bushels, covering its cost.
Sydney's wine and animal markets show strong demand with top sale activity. Wool quotable ranges include full wools six pence per pound and medium wools six to seven pence. pelts and crossbreds varied. Kangaroo skins firm with high prices. rabbit skins especially strong. opossum skins irregular but high. Hides show buyer advantage. tallow prices down about 15 percent. Auctions planned for next week across several categories.
Sydney brokers Schute Bell and Co report on December 5 noting very satisfactory sales of good to superior quarry wools with United States buyers taking a larger share. Medium quality remains fairly steady while burr and inferior lots show ongoing irregularity with mixed prices.
Market news notes a strong buyer tilt with no Sydney auction this week as buyers travel to Brisbane. Upcoming events include a December 14 catalogue preview and December 20 sales with numerous clips listed from Bundarra Burrowa and surrounding districts, highlighting superfine wools and varied clip quantities and prices.
Crown lands offered in the Mudgee and Molong districts include 590 acres in the Crown land parcels of Avisford and Grattai, with units on portions 1, 112, 111, 40, 63 and 94, available December 15 at 16/8 per acre. Also 442 1/2 acres split into two blocks in Belubula parish with variable land quality, no permanent water but rainfall about 25 inches, rents £5 2s and £4 18s 2d. Tender details for improvements in Coonamble district, 11,000 acres in two blocks near the Warrumbamble ranges, rents £12 10s and £10 8s 4d, with diverse terrain and rainfall around 30 inches. Also 640 acres near Mundooran, Castle Reagh River frontage, annual rent £6, location 4 miles from Mundooran and 34 miles from Gilgandra.
Fragmented lines suggest a note on stock sales titled Homebrush or Homebrsh with references to prime mering and extra prime lists. The readable text hints at quotations and poems, but concrete entities, dates, or outcomes are not established.
Yarded prices for merino types from good to prime and extra prime at various dates. odd pens and young animals listed with ranges. Cattle quotations include prime bullocks and cows or heifers with price bands in shillings per pair or head, noting yard totals and ranges for good, medium, and inferior classes.
The report notes cool weather followed by rising thermometers and storms with heavy rain and lightning that may be fatal. Similar patterns occurred in portions of West Australia before this period. A cool change is expected to reach the coast at the end of the period.
December services listed for FG.U.M. Wellington and surrounding parishes with times for morning and evening worship. Includes Communicants days, special Christmas choral services, weeknight activities, and Adjutant led meetings across Bodangora Geurie Wellington Neurea Spicer's Creek and related towns.
The column lampoons fashion excesses with hobble skirts and bobble hats causing mishaps in Sydney street life. It shifts to a Home Office aliens report, noting 47 401 aliens passed through the UK convicts in ten years, with recent annual totals dropping to 4 601 amid extradition effects, and comments on policy efficacy and imperial ties.
South Africa faces Newcastle district in Newcastle on December 16 and 17. The team then meets Combined Universities at Sydney on December 21 and 22. The December 31 to January 4 schedule covers the Second Test at Melbourne. The Third Test runs January 6 to 10 at Adelaide. The Fourth Test spans February 10 and 11 and 18 and 14 at Melbourne.
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