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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1928

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Dairy Instructor's Report

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 17 February 1928 · page 2

In his report for January to the Department, Mr. G. Rowe, Senior Dairy Instructor for the Glarence-Bellinsen-Dorrigo district, states:—Weather.—…

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Dorrigo Co-op Dairy Co. Ltd 42nd Half-yearly Meeting Rabbit Freezing Works to Be Built Alterations to Bacon Factory

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 17 February 1928 · page 6

The 42nd half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Dorrigo Co-op. Dairy Company was held in the Memorial Hall on Wednesday. There…

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£23,499 ESTATE Wealthy Bangalow Farmer Children Benefit Direction to Trustees. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 February 1928 · page 5

Andrew Anderson, or Bungalow, on the North Coast, who left an estate valued at £23,499 bequeathed his piano to his daughter Pearl jane Anderson and organ and…

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Waters Rise at Cowper Cattle in Flood Reserve

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 February 1928 · page 5

Our Cowper correspondent last night reported that practically all the farmers had taken their cattle to the flood reserve. The waters there were about three inches…

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More Butter Needed There Is No Substitute View of Scientists

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 February 1928 · page 6

A paper read by Dr. Cramer before the British Association, London, is stirring thought in the Old Country, and should do much to increase the consumption of…

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Export Butter London Criticism Resented by Mr. P. Grant Commonwealth Graders Blamed Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 February 1928 · page 7

Disquieting cables from London, regarding the quality of Australian export butter, reference to which was made yesterday, have been brought under the…

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C.r. Pioneer Dairy Co. Monthly Report

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 February 1928 · page 4

The Clarence River, Pioneer Dairy Company, Ltd., reports having manufactured for the month of January 154¾ tons of butter, as against 156½ toils for the…

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Casino Farm Lands

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 February 1928 · page 4

Without opposition, Casino Council on Tuesday night agreed to the proposals of owners of farm lands within the municipality to excise rural areas from the…

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Crops Damaged at Southgate and Great Marlow

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 February 1928 · page 5

Flood waters have caused very extensive damage to maize crops at Southgate, where in places the conditions are said to be quite as bad as those obtaining in…

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Dorrigo Plateau Corn Crops Ruined. Dorrigo

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 February 1928 · page 5

Further heavy rain fell over the whole of the plateau last night. The registration at 9 o'clock this morning in Dorrigo was 251 points. All the rivers and creeks,…

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50 Per Cent. Drop Cream to Grafton Factory Farmers Losing Thousands of Pounds

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 February 1928 · page 3

Mr. C. Stoner, manager of the Grafton Dairy Company, last night stated that as a result of the flood rains the cream supplies had been reduced by…

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Clarence Flood Situation Regarded As Most Grave Alarming Reports From Up River Centres Flood Rains and Rivers Rising Again Impossible to Estimate Damage Flood Boats Leaving to Rescue Farmers at Ulmarra

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 February 1928 · page 3

Old Father Clarence is in angry mood. He has done his best to carry the flood into the sea, but as has happened before to-day, the load has been too great for him. Saturday's flood, which resulted in the inundation of a very large area…

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Cattle Rescued on Elizabeth Island a Thrill Every Trip

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 February 1928 · page 3

Threatened with destruction owing to rapidly rising flood waters, 60 head of cattle were taken off Elizabeth Island, at Grafton, in the small river steamer…

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Butter Supplies Decrease 25 Per Cent. Decline Likely. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 February 1928 · page 3

Butter supplies are expected to decrease b at least 25 per cent. as a result of the flood rains. More than sixty per cent, of the State's butter output at this…

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Dairying Conditions. Report for January

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 21 February 1928 · page 3

Senior Dairy instructor, Mr. G. Rowe, in charge of the dairy branch district, Clarence to Bellinger Rivers, headquarters Coffs Harbour, is his…

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Third Flood in Week Clarence Valley Again Under Water Make Crop Damage Not Less Than £100,000 People Again Driven From Homes SCORES Of Houses Under Water at Grafton

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 February 1928 · page 3

The third flood in the Clarence within a week has come and gone--or I is going--adding to the spoliation of the earlier visitations. Huge areas of pastoral and agricultural lands were again covered by flood waters, homes of town dwellers and farmers were invaded and the…

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Rescue of Cattle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 February 1928 · page 5

Mr. Fred Ellem was one of the party who assisted in the removal of Mr. Betteridge's cattle from Elizabeth Island in the exciting circumstances related in…

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Sale of Land Cane Farmer Sues Agents Misrepresentation Alleged Contract Rescinded. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 February 1928 · page 2

How a man of little education became involved in an extraordinary business deal while on a visit to Sydney was related in the Equity Court…

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Grafton Dairy Co. Successful Half-years Bonus to Be Paid

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 February 1928 · page 6

The half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the above company, which was to have taken plate Thursday next has been postponed till later date, on account of the…

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Grafton Dairy Company

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 February 1928 · page 4

On account of the flood conditions the half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Grafton Dairy Company has been postponed from Thursday till a later date…

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