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  • ...working on the squatting runs and increased the need for meat rather than wool. In the 1860's many former gold miners and others were looking for land. Ma [[Category:Things]] [[Category:squatters]] [[Category:wool]] [[Category:wheat]] [[Category:meat]] [[Category:sheep]] [[Category:Cattle
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  • ...elly Gang of bushrangers of the [[Faithfull's Creek (2)|Gooram Gooram Gong Wool Station]], at Faithful's Creek, on December 9, 1878 . Mr McCauley was manag
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  • ...to the steamers, as is the case at [[Echuca|Echuca]], three-fourths of the wool from Riverina finds its way down to Adelaide, owing to the keen competition
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  • After the sheep have passed through the scouring process, the wool on their backs is .as clean or cleaner than any we have over seen. The arra
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  • ...p, superior to many former years, both in quantity and the fineness of the wool. Messrs [[Gobur|Rowe]], '''Chenery''', '''Tobine''', and '''Duff''', have n
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  • ...iseased sheep cannot yield heavy sound fleeces, so that in the return from wool also there is a serious deficiency when compared with healthy runs.
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  • ...he Government adopts precisely the opposite course, for no matter how much wool or stock may decline in value - no matter how much their runs may have dimi
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  • ...they with difficulty walk. One weighs stout 120 lb, and had about 10 lb of wool on its back. The garden is tilled with a choice selection of shrubs and fru
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  • '''The [[Wool Wheat and Meat|Sheep]] at [[Jerilderie|Jerilderie]] Show,''' ...ike for its anatomy and the superior density, quality, and quantity of its wool.
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  • ...y medium also, but light. The fibres number 52,000 to the square inch. The wool in the London market has for the last eight years averaged about 2s 11d per ...re inch. The skin is clean and free from discharges from the fibres of the wool.
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  • ...toppage was made at Messrs '''Schakell''' and '''Franklin''''s tannery and wool-washing establishment, consisting of three or four two-storied wooden build
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  • ...b grasses. In the afternoon of my arrival, Mr M'Laurin drove me out to the wool washing dam, three or four miles distant. The country through which we pass The wool-washing establishment is one of the most complete in Australia. The water i
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  • ...vate houses, we came to a large '''wool store''', which held 3000 bales of wool last season. It is built on stone foundations, with walls and roof of galva
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  • ...al times a day during the season so as to secure a snowy whiteness for the wool. The wool-press, I must ask pardon for enlarging on, as I have seen many elsewhere wh
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  • ...yond, up und down which a large number of steamers are seen passing in the wool season and when the river is up, make a pleasant picture. The residence is ...ay in improving the breed of sheep in the district, and the quality of the wool. Continuing my course through the paddocks for a short distance brought me
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  • ...inently successful. The above causes combined, viz., low price of inferior wool and pastoral shows acted as incentives. The latter caused a spirit of gener ...construction a capital wool store, or rather, covered in wharf, as from it wool can be shipped at high water on board vessels trading on the Murray. The Bo
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  • ...e pens and yards are excellently arranged, and a force pump loads from the wool-press to the Tuppal Creek.
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  • ...reccan was one for the best twelve fleeces from the salt-bush country. The wool has since obtained a certificate of merit from the Great Exhibition Commiss ...cannot grow combing wool. It is well-known that this is a most profitable wool to grow. Mr Jennings in place of introducing expensive now blood ia attaini
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  • ...ted pavement, he passes the general coffee-room to the loft, and the "wool" - room to the right - two dining-halls, the latter used principally b
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  • ...m the various pens and meet in one point like some puzzle mazes. The stone wool store adjoins, and is a very substantial building. The house for the superi
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  • ...is 60 feet square, and in the centre is one of Messrs T Robinson and Co.'s wool presses. There are two folding tables, one on each end of the shearing floo ...ed drafting yards, is covered with a pine flooring. There is a lawn in the wool-shed paddock leading down to the wash pen. From the time the sheep are wash
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  • ...s of the flocks of Bayley, Cox, and other celebrated western breeders. The wool from North Yanco last year averaged 2s 6d per lb. ...o screen folding tables, and a travelling box screw wool press are used. A wool store is adjacent to the shed; and a short distance away are the superinten
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  • ...l. The interior pens and gates are models of system and good judgment. The wool-press is of colonial hard wood, with screw, and worked by a wheel on a simi
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  • ...from the home station, is a huge one, 200 feet long and 60 feet wide. Two wool presses are used; one of these is Wilding's patent travelling box. There is ...urne. Groongal is one of the few stations in the colony that dumps its own wool.
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  • ...altogether. The whole look well going down the river merrily, when full of wool. The Pearl travels regularly between Hay [[Echuca|Echuca]]; Captain Rîanda
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  • ...ian judges at the last Hay Show spoke in high terms of the bale of scoured wool exhibited by Mr Lomax. ...e well arranged, and a Wilding's Patent Wool Press is used for packing the wool in bales.
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  • ...ing, carried on by Messrs John Cramsie and Co. Beside this the firm have a wool store, a large galvanized iron building, and several smaller buildings in t
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  • ...f sheep management picture to himself the effect of this upon spout-washed wool. The loss I would therefore sustain not only of the value of my improvement
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  • ...the season. The shed has five folding tables, two sorting tables, and two wool presses, one of Home's travelling boxes, and the other manufactured by Fult
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  • About a quarter of a mile from the house is the wool shed-an immense building 200 feet long and 30 feet wide. There are two wool ...ting yards on a good working model around. One of Wilding's travelling box wool presses is used. A few miles from the shed is the residence of Mr '''Alexan
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  • ...lately arrived in the colony has brought out bulls and cows and rams and [[Wool Wheat and Meat|ewes]] of the best English breeds, and most of them have rea ...erfect symmetry and good size as well as for the length and quality of the wool, and a good price - near upon £20 - being offered, the owner was induced t
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  • M'Eachern deposed. I am inspector of [[Wool Wheat and Meat|sheep]] for the Benalla district. I produce the Gazette of A
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  • ...d. The majority of the ewes forward, however, were very good. The sheep in wool, having lost condition, are not now so much in demand, the trade preferring ...d. Second quality and middling ewes, 6s. to 7s. We have sold a few ewes in wool at 10s., and shorn at 7s.
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  • ...It gives a good idea of the difficulties of transit, to see last season's wool still on the road 260 bales passed through here this weak. At the present m
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  • == I notice two steamers are laid on for the wool season, to run on the Edwards and Wakool. ==
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  • ...ations of the estimated value of £3103 10s. It is said that, the value of wool exported this season from this district to Melbourne will exceed £750.000.
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  • The supply of wool from Riverina this season will be far in excess of former years, and the ge Mr [[Deniliquin|Man]] the stock agent, has completed a roomy wool store.
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  • ...d device. About 30,000 have crossed here this week and about 1000 bales of wool.
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  • ...mmense goods sheds though not even extensive enough for the traffic in the wool season.
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  • ...much dust, although near winter. I was informed that in summer during the wool season the dust is something fearful. The streets are not metalled, which s
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  • An extremely discouraging account of the condition and prospects of the [[Wool Wheat and Meat|farming]], industry is given by the [[Newspapers|Goulburn Va
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  • '''THE [[Wool Wheat and Meat|CATTLE]] SALES'''
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  • The '''wool exhibition''' at Messers [[Beechworth|Hastings, Cunningham, and Co]]’s wa
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  • The stretch of [[Wool Wheat and Meat|country]] lying between [[Benalla|Benalla]] and [[Mansfield|
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  • ...ge figures. If it had not been for the bad season of 1878-9, when the '''[[Wool Wheat and Meat|wheat]]''' crops of the district almost entirely failed thro
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  • ...re was nothing on which he could just now raise any money. He bought 100 [[Wool Wheat and Meat|sheep]] on credit for £44 some time ago, but they got out t
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  • ...on. The owners find it more profitable just now to devote their lands to [[Wool Wheat and Meat|sheep]] - breeding than to enter into competition with agric
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  • ...started with plenty of money, who now own sheep and cattle, and send both wool and grain to market. On persons of this class it was not necessary to call.
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  • ...on his land, a plentiful supply of herbage would have been converted into wool and mutton. It was not until we fell in with men who had begun with £500 o
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  • ...a close. Most of the vessels returning to port bring very small cargoes of wool, and a number of boats are preparing to lay up for the season. The greater
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  • ...and the Murrumbidgee and Lachlan back country. In the case of the Darling wool, the river is too low to permit of its transportation steamers, and in the
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  • '''Later Service''' I became a wool classer for a while. Later I became a stock broker in Melbourne
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  • '''Wool brokers'''
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  • Wool agents '''Man''' ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 16/10/
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  • ...bt Victoria as a great step forward. The Riverina was opened up. Suddenly wool and wheat etc could be transported directly to [[Melbourne|Melbourne]]. New '''Schakell''' and '''Franklin''''s tannery and wool-washing establishment,([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1
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  • <p>The stations was also known as the '''Gooram Gooram Gong Wool Station''' ([[The Argus at KellyGang 20/02/1923|Argus20/2/1923]])</p>
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  • Goulburn had a lage number of industries involved with the wool trade and many fine buildings that are still standing
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  • [[#wool|Woolshed]] Inn Mrs '''Davidson''' publican ([[The Argus at KellyGang 12/2/1
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  • ...nd everything else the squatters and selectors needed. They also took away wool wheat and timber. The trip by road to Melbourne took at least 7 weeks. The ...bt Victoria as a great step forward. The Riverina was opened up. Suddenly wool and wheat etc could be transported directly to [[Melbourne|Melbourne]]. New
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  • ...ow) were some of the rischest properties in the area. They mainly produced wool but there were some cattle properties ...steamers came up the Murrumbidgee at least as far as [[Hay|Hay]] and took wool down the [[Murray River at Kellygang|Murray]] to [[Echuca|Echuca]] .
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  • Wool Press Creek
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  • ...working on the squatting runs and increased the need for meat rather than wool. In the 1860's many former gold miners and others were looking for land. Ma [[Category:Things]] [[Category:squatters]] [[Category:wool]] [[Category:wheat]] [[Category:meat]] [[Category:sheep]] [[Category:Cattle
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  • Heather B Ronald in her book '''Wool Past the Winning Post, a history of the Chirnside family''' gives the follo
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  • Australia's wool industry was well developed and the expression about the country 'riding on The size of the wool clip ([[The Argus at KellyGang 19/1/1881|Argus19/1/81]])
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  • [[Wool Wheat and Meat|farmers]]
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  • ...nce over the [[Riverina area|Riverian]] in New South Wales by transporting wool produced in New South Wales from [[Echuca|Euchca]] and [[Wodonga (2)|Wodong
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  • ...bt Victoria as a great step forward. The Riverina was opened up. Suddenly wool and wheat etc could be transported directly to [[Melbourne|Melbourne]]. New
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