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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1924

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Dairying Industry Conference of Experts Proposals for Improvement. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 November 1924 · page 5

Senator Wilson, Honorary Federal Minister, opened the conference of Commonwealth and State Dairy Experts, who are seeking for the best methods of…

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Farmer Runs Amok. Police Met with Rifle Fire. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 November 1924 · page 5

Armed with a military rifle and a magazine full of cartridges, Jeffrie Lamb (22), a returned soldier dairy farmer, ran amok at Clarendon, near Richmond,…

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Victorian Politics. Farmers Threaten Government Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 November 1924 · page 5

Mr. Allen, leader of the Farmers party, with the unanimous support of other parties, will challenge the Prendergast Government, whose defeat seems…

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Butter Competition

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 November 1924 · page 4

The Royal Agricultural Society's Council, at its last meeting, adopted the recommendation of the cattle committee of the addition to the prize schedule of…

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Butter. the Export Trade. Record Year Expected. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 November 1924 · page 7

Mr. Pratten, Minister for Trade and Customs, has issued figures showing a comparison of the quantities of butter exported to the United Kingdom for…

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Heavy Rain. Crops Knocked Down. West Wyalong

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 November 1924 · page 5

Torrential rain fell in town this morning, 150 points falling within an hour. Watercourses ran a banker and the cellars of lower lying business premises…

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Dairy Instructor's Report

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 November 1924 · page 2

Dairy Instructor Rowe, in his departmental report regarding the Clarence River and Dorrigo, says that cream quality has been indifferent, owing to the…

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"Working Bees" for Sick Farmer

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 November 1924 · page 2

Three "working bees" came to the assistance of a farmer named Thomas Bayley, of the Duval road, near Armidale, who has been ill for some time…

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Warwick Farm. Mayo Wins Double. 33 TO 1 Chance Wins Handicap. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 November 1924 · page 2

Heavy ram throughout the night had caused the track at Randwick to hold yesterday, and winners consequently were hard to pick. Not one favorite was…

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Dairy Export Control Bill

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 November 1924 · page 2

A meeting of dairymen was held in Cooroy to discuss the attitude to be taken towards the Federal Dairy Produce Export Control Bill. Representatives were…

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Butter Factories. Proposed Amalgamation Grafton and Copmanhurst. Agreement Referred Back to Grafton

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 November 1924 · page 4

The shareholders of the Copmanhurst Co-operative Dairy Company were called upon to attend an extraordinary meeting of the company at Copmanhurst…

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Dairy Export Act. Ballot Papers Being Sent Out. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 November 1924 · page 5

Senator Wilson, Honorary Federal Minister, who also is supervising the referendum by the dairy producers as, to whether they will accept the principle…

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HAILSTORMS. Great Damage on Clarence. Upper and Lower Fiver. Crops Cut to Pieces

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 November 1924 · page 4

Storms, made up of heavy hail rain and wind, wrought great havoc along the Clarence Valley on Saturday…

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Butter Exports

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 12 November 1924 · page 2

The Minister for Trade and Customs quotes the following figures as a comparison of the quantities of butter exported to the United Kingdom for the…

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Sheep for North Coast

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 12 November 1924 · page 2

At the meeting of the Casino Chamber of Commerce Mr. A. O. Simpson said that the time had arrived for people in the district to look around for…

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Butter Prices. Further Reduction. Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 12 November 1924 · page 2

A Melbourne message states that the wholesale price of butter was reduced by five shillings to 145/ cwt. yesterday…

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News of the World. World's Wheat. Shortage Predicted. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 November 1924 · page 5

Wheat rose 2¼d in the Liverpool wheat market, making an advance of 16 since November 5. A serious world shortage of wheat is now feared. If the drought…

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Cane Sugar Crop. Melbourne

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 12 November 1924 · page 2

The 1924 Australian cane sugar crop is estimated at 413,000 tons, worth at least ten million pounds, which is a record…

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Experiment Farm Catile Request for Shorthorn Hero. Departmental Reply. Maclean

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 November 1924 · page 3

Mr. D. A. Cameron, secretary of the Farmers and Settlers Association, is in receipt of the following letter from the Department of Agriculture per favor of…

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Sugar Harvest. a Record Crop. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 November 1924 · page 5

The 1924 Australian cane sugar crop is estimated at 413,000 tons, worth at least £10,000,000, which is a record. The previous best crop was 327,000 tons…

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