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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1929

988 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 49 of 50

Dusseldorf Murders Farm Laborer Arrested. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 December 1929 · page 7

A farm laborer has been arrested for complicity in the Dusseldorf murders. It is alleged that he was in company with Maria Hahn shortly before her death. It…

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Masked Man Visits to Farmhouse Woman Bound and Gagged Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 December 1929 · page 7

The farmhouse of Mr. D. Meads, in the Silverhope district, was visited by a masked man who, however, was frightened away. He again visited the place later,…

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Butter That Looks British How Housewives Are Deceived Wrapper Device

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 6

Every day some hundreds of thousands of British housewives go hopefully to the shops and buy butter which they believe to be the product…

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Australian Butter Inferior to New Zealand Impression in London So Says Dr. Skeoch

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 6

A few months ago Dr. Skeoch, who has been in the Old Country for about two years, in a letter to his brother, Mr. J. H. Skeoch, of Dorrigo,…

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Dairying Conditions on North Coast Instructors' Reports Tweed River

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 3

Mr. Senior Dairy Instructor A. C. Small, in charge of the Dairy Branch District, Tweed River, with headquarters at Murwrillumbah, in his…

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Grafton Dairy Company

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 4

A meeting of the shareholders of the Grafton Co-operative Dairy Company is to be held at the Company's office at 11 o'clock this morning to confirm the…

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Fox Hunting at Farmer's Island

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 11

The fourth successful fox hunt since the formation of the local Fox Club took place at Palmer's Island one day last week, writes our Palmer's Island…

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Sixty Dead Hungarian Peasant Farmers Poisoned by Wives Land-mad Primitive Women. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 5

The British United Press Budapest correspondent states simple peasants will do anything to obtain a small plot of land on which to work from…

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Dairy Registrations

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 December 1929 · page 4

Dairymen are reminded that registrations of dairies must be effected at the Grafton Police Station by December 16…

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Resolutions Comfirmed Grafton Co Operative Dairy Coy., Ltd

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 December 1929 · page 7

At an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Grafton Co-operative Dairy Coy., Ltd., presided over toy. Mr. G. Maxwell (chairman), at the…

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Trade Summary More Gold For London Money Position Better Dull Butter Market. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 December 1929 · page 5

The trade summary states that the reduction in the bankrate is welcome,though it has so far had little effect on Stock Exchange prices,…

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Australian Butter 'Difficult to Obtain' English People Think It in Ferior to New Zealand. Dorrigo

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 December 1929 · page 3

Sometime ago Dr. Hugh Skeoch, son of Mr.'and Mrs. H. Skeoch (erstwhile residents of the Clarence), who has been in England for about two, years, wrote to…

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Dairying Condition and Prospects Instructor' Reports

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 December 1929 · page 6

Mr. Senior Dairy Instructor G. Rowe, in charge of the dairy branch district, Clarence to Bellinger, Rivers, with headquarters at Coff 's Harbor, in his…

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Harwood Weather and Crops

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 7

The past week has been the hottest experienced this summer, the thermometer teaching 100 degrees mark on Monday, and Tuesday, 98 degrees were registered…

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Doing Well Migrant Boys on Farms. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 5

Files of the New Settlers' League show that hundreds of migrant boys are steadily improving their positions. Two welfare officers are constantly at work…

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Farmers Are Sold Wheat Guarantee Repudiate. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 December 1929 · page 9

"Calmly and casually, the Federal Labor Government has repudiated the very definite and solemn promise of its responsible members during election time…

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Five Years for Stealing One Sheep. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 December 1929 · page 4

For stealing one sheep. Alexander Cameron. 28 was sentenced to five years' gaol at Ballrat to-day…

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Dorrigo Dairy Company. Monthly Report Butter Department

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 20 December 1929 · page 2

During the month of November, 1929, the quantity of butter manufactured was 69 tons, being an increase of 22 tons as compared with…

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Marketing Board Poster Dairying in Grafton District

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 December 1929 · page 4

The Town Clerk of Grafton, Mr. W. C. Sheather, has received a letter from Mr. A. B. Webb of Nedlands, West Australia, stating that the writer had been…

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Farmer Defrauded Five Years for Conspiracy. Perth

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 December 1929 · page 5

Archibald Lee alias Willis, who was found guilty in the Criminal Court on a charge of having conspired with Samuel Lampard to defraud a farmer named…

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