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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

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Sugar Crop. Arrangements for Distribution. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 July 1917 · page 5

Mr. Hughes is hopeful that within a few days all arrangements for the distribution of this year's sugar crop will be overcome…

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Butter. Question of Cold Storage. Rabbits or Butter. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 July 1917 · page 3

A deputation from all branches of the butter export trade awaited on the Acting-Premier this afternoon and asked him for greater facilities for the storage of…

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Australian Butter. Price Fixing in England

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 11 July 1917 · page 1

Representations were recently made by the Minister for Agriculture to the Imperial authorities regarding the question of fixing prices in England…

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Farmers and Settlers. Decisions of the Conference. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 July 1917 · page 3

The Farmers and Settlers' Conference decided in favor of an income tax being levied on the average income for three previous years…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing. Nana Glen Case. Evidence for Prosecution

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 July 1917 · page 6

Unusual interest centred in the proceedings of the Coramba Police Court, before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P.M., yesterday, when three men, David James Porter,…

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Farmers and Settlers. the Conference Continues. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 July 1917 · page 5

The Farmers and Settlers' Conference rejected a motion that members of Parliament should hand in their railway Parliamentary passes upon a dissolution of…

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Wheat

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 July 1917 · page 3

The Farmers' Conference discussed a motion to the effect that this conference supports a scheme of handling the 1917-18 wheat crop as set out by Mr…

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Farmers and Settlers. to the Government. Recommendations Formulated. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 July 1917 · page 3

The Farmers and Settlers' Conference urged that the Workmen's Compensation Act, as it stands, should be further amended, so that the responsibility of insuring…

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Britain's Great Potato Crop. Market Glutted. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 13 July 1917 · page 2

Owing to the excessive crop of potatoes in Lincolnshire and elsewhere, a glut in the market is expected…

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Butter Storage

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 14 July 1917 · page 2

A deputation from all branches of the butter export trade waited on the Acting Premier (Mr. G. W. Fuller) on Tuesday afternoon and asked for…

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Butter. Commonwealth Dairy Expert. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 July 1917 · page 7

Mr. O' Callaghan dairy expert for New South Wales, has been appointed Commonwealth Dairy Expert to supervise the dairy products for export at a salary of…

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Australian Butter. Price Fixing in England

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 14 July 1917 · page 6

Representations were recently made by the Minister for Agriculture to the Imperial authorities regarding the question of fixing prices in England…

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The Wool Clip. What It Means to Australia. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 July 1917 · page 6

The price at which the Australian new season's clip, has been purchased by the British Government is 15½ d per lb. Mr. Hughes states that the financial…

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Pastoral and Agricultural. (These Notes are Supplied by the Department of Agriculture.) Sweet Corn or Table Maize. Harvesting the Cobs

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 14 July 1917 · page 3

The beginner usually finds some difficulty in determining the correct stage at which the our should be harvested, but after a little practice…

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Farmers and the Surtax

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 14 July 1917 · page 2

The Farmers and Settlers' Conference decided in favor of an income tax being levied on the average income for the three previous years. A…

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C.r. Pioneer Dairy Company

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 July 1917 · page 4

The manager of the Clarence River Pioneer Dairy Company, Ulmarra, Mr Dunlop, states that the turnover for the half-year ended June 30, was a record…

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Letter to the Editor. Dairying v. Rabbit Industry

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 July 1917 · page 2

Sir,--Experts in England are using their wits devising means to destroy Germany's submarine weapon. In like manner we in Australia are at last…

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Repatriation. Farmers and Settlers' Views. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 July 1917 · page 3

The Farmers and Settlers' Conference this morning discussed the question of settling returned soldiers on the land. A number of motions from ten separate…

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Loans to Farmers and Settlers

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 16 July 1917 · page 2

The Commissioners of the Government Savings Bank of N.S.W. announce that they are prepared to receive applications from farmers and…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing. Nana Glen Men Charged. Accused Acquitted

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 July 1917 · page 5

At Coramba on Saturday, before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P.M., the ease against David James Porter, Charles Edward Cavanagh and William Joseph Mully (all…

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