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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1930

1,307 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 16 of 66

N.S.W. Cabinet and Federal Wheat Pool. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 March 1930 · page 4

The Premier, Mr. Bavin, said to–day that Cabinet had decided to enter the Commonwealth Government's wheat pool scheme on certain conditions. Those…

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Slump in Wool Values Fifty Per Cent, Decline in N.Z. AUCKLAND

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 March 1930 · page 5

Wool values reached the lowest level known in New Zealand for many years to–day, when a catalogue of 15,761 bales was submitted…

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Missing Butter Three Men For Trial Fifty Boxes Said to Have Been Stolen Property of the P.D.S. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 March 1930 · page 4

The disappearance of a lorry owned by Harry Forsyth and 50 boxes of butter valued at £226, the property of the Producers' Distributing Society, had a sequel…

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Unclean Dairy Premises

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 March 1930 · page 4

In inflicting a fine of £5 or two months' imprisonment on Robert Gay and Victor Hart, dairy farmers, working in partnership at Ettrick, on a charge of not having…

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Whitewash on the Farm a Useful Formula

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 March 1930 · page 6

Whitewash has a wide application to farm use, and deserves a much greater popularity than it at present enjoys. Its ingredients are inexpensive and readily…

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Southgate Farmers Visit Experiment Farm a Profitable Day Spent. Southgate

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 March 1930 · page 3

Farmers and members of the Southgate Primary Producers' Union paid a visit to the Grafton Experiment Farm on Wednesday last, when a very enjoyable day was…

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Cotton Weaving New District Industry South Grafton Mills Project Cotton Growing—a White Man's Crop

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 March 1930 · page 7

Arrangements in respect of the proposed cotton weaving mills for South Grafton have been running smoothly and the members of the syndicate are…

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Farmers in Tears Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 March 1930 · page 4

Addressing the Chamber of Agriculture, Mr. Thorby, Minister for Agriculture, said that farmers in the north–west, who…

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Blended Butter Bell in Commons. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 31 March 1930 · page 5

A Bill sponsored by three parties has been introduced into the House of Commons providing that persons selling in the United Kingdom butter blended with…

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The Wheat Pool Tasmania Declines to Co–operate. Hobart

Daily Examiner · Monday 31 March 1930 · page 5

Tasmania has declined to co–operate in the establishment of a Federal wheat pool, and it will not join in guaranteeing a fixed price…

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Poison Liquor Results of Analysis Contains Disinfectants' Used in Sheep Dip. Washington

Daily Examiner · Monday 31 March 1930 · page 5

A report giving the results of the analysis of liquor which caused numerous cases of paralysis revealed that it contained alcohol, ginger extract, crude…

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Dried Fruits Act Marketing of Season's Vine Crop. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Monday 31 March 1930 · page 8

The Minister for Markets, Mr. Parker Moloney, has determined on the recommendation of the State Dried Fruits Board, that holders of licenses who desire to…

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Empire Farmer Tourists Buttenshaw on Primary Industries. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 31 March 1930 · page 5

A party of Empire farmers, numbering 53, arrived by the liner Niagara, to–day. They will visit a number of New South Wales farming centres before returning…

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Wool to Coffs Harbour

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 1 April 1930 · page 3

Another load of wool arrived at Coffs Harbour for shipment on Saturday. In conversation the driver of the lorry said there were about five…

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Royal Show Record Cattle Entries. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 April 1930 · page 5

Entries in the cattle section at the Royal Show will easily eclipse those of 1929. Recent importations from Great Britain and Canada will be exhibited…

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Coff's Harbor Completion of Port Wool From New England. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 April 1930 · page 4

During the past few weeks a large quantity of wool has been brought down from the New England district and shipped at Coff's Harbor. At the monthly meeting…

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Record Prices for Farm Land

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 April 1930 · page 3

Record prices for the Hawkesbury district were obtained for two historic farms, for over 100 years the property of the Fitzgerald family, which were sold…

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Farmers' Debts Guarantee Act Operations Statement by Minister. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 April 1930 · page 5

In connection with the operations of Advances to Settlers Government Guarantee Act, 1929, creditors, who are being offered payment of portion of their debts,…

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Cattle Tick Control and Eradication Departmental Pamphlet. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 April 1930 · page 2

The Department of Agriculture has published a pamphlet entitled "The cattle tick question. A catechism on tick control and eradication," which has…

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Victorian Wheat Crop. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 April 1930 · page 7

Addressing the convention of the Chamber of Agriculture to-day, the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Slater, said the associated banks in co-operation with the…

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