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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1938

1,285 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 31 of 65

Wooing Sleep How Famous People Do It Sheep Counting Out of Date. London, May 23

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 June 1938 · page 8

Famous people this week gave their remedies for insomnia. Counting sheep, the old-fashioned cure, is no longer popular…

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Ask City Wives to Try Life on Farms

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 17 June 1938 · page 3

As one woman to another, Mrs. John Allen, president of the Lismore branch of the Country Women's Association, evidently…

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Southgate Junior Farmers

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 June 1938 · page 1

On Saturday, 11th inst., a meeting was held at the school for the purpose of forming a Junior Farmers' Club. Mr. Folkard presided over a good…

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DAIRYING Movable Dairy Plant And Poultry Pens for Improvement of Dairying Pastures

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 June 1938 · page 9

Interesting references to methods of pasture management employed by overseas farmers are made in the course of the report of Mr. J. N. Whittett,…

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Wool Conference Exchange of Students. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 June 1938 · page 5

Countries represented at the International Wool Conference, with the exception of Germany, carried a resolution that each Government should…

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Butter Market Conditions In London Australian Production Decline in New South Wales Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 June 1938 · page 5

Rain in all States has greatly assisted Australian butter production. Following light rains in all districts of Queensland, except the far north,…

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London Butter Market. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 June 1938 · page 5

Tooley street is endeavoring to maintain Dominion butter at its present level, but weakness in Continental descriptions is somewhat a drag on the…

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Rural Award For Dairy Farm Employees Reply to Sydney Suggestion. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 June 1938 · page 4

A proposal has been made by the organiser of the Milk. Ice and Daily Employees Union Mr. Thompson that dairy farm employees should be…

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Butter Price Housewives' Action Criticised LEETON C.W.A. Decision. Leeton

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 June 1938 · page 5

A resolution disapproving of the action of the Housewives' Association of New South Wales against the slight increase in the price of butter was passed…

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Polish Doctors Want Work As Farm Hands Inquiries in Australia. Perth

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 June 1938 · page 5

The flight from Europe to Australia was instanced by the large numbers of letters all Government departments in Western Australia are receiving from…

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Father Shot Daughter On Murder Charge W.A. Farm Tragedy. Perth

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 June 1938 · page 5

A charge of wilful murder was preferred late to-day against Eunice Mary Hornby, 18, of Hester, near Bridgetown…

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City Man Defends Dairy Farmers

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 June 1938 · page 4

Sir Arthur Cocks, referring to the increase in butter prices, strongly criticised the Housewives' Association proposal for the boycott of that…

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Bull Shot Tyringham Case Farmer Before Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 21 June 1938 · page 3

William Freeman, a Tyringham farmer, appeared before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., at Grafton Police Court yesterday, charged with having…

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Bull Shot Found In Scrub Farmer Before Court Case From Tyringham

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 June 1938 · page 2

At Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday before Mr. J. McElroy. P.M.; William Freeman, farmer, of Tyringham district, was charged…

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Butter Gradings 33.9 Per Cent. Choicest. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 June 1938 · page 3

The State butter grading staff at the Department of Agriculture examined at Sydney and Newcastle during the week ended on June 17 10.545 boxes…

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Defeated Federal Government On Adjournment Motion Wheat Industry Canberra

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 June 1938 · page 5

The Government was again defeated in the House of Representatives to-day when a vote was taken following general by a group of Ministerial…

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Prison Farm Closing Approved. SYDNEY,Tuesday

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 June 1938 · page 4

The [?] Member for Justice [?] in the chasing down the [?] approved by the State Cabinet [?]…

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Butter Gradings. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 June 1938 · page 4

During the week ended June 18. Commonwealth butter graders examined for export 248 boxes of salted butter at Sydney. There were no…

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Hasten Inquiry Butter Production Costs P. P. U. To Govt. Central Executive Meeting Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 June 1938 · page 5

The Central Executive of the P. P. U. at its quarterly meeting to- day urged the Federal Government to expedite the inquire into the costs of…

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Butter Quality

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 24 June 1938 · page 3

The State butter grading staff of the Department of Agriculture examined at Sydney and Newcastle during the week ended 17/6/38, 10,545 boxes of…

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