No Crops Lost Because Of Lack Of Manpower Says Director
SYDNEY, Fri.—The main difficulty in providing manpower for rural industry was lack of accommodation for seasonal workers,…
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Farming & the land, 1944
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Minister Explains Butter Payments
SYDNEY, Sun.--Recent statements on prices realised for butter by dairy farmers betrayed ignorance of the normal factory…
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Not one farm in the Coaldale district has escaped damage of some description as a result of the heavy storm in the district…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.--But for the work of volunteers, farmers in the Geelong district would have lost hundreds of pecks of peas at…
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PERTH, Tues.—The Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, to-day announced an additional payment of 1 1-3d a bushel to wheat growers…
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"Our experiences of last year have, I think, impressed upon all our citizens the important part that food supply plays in a total war. Not since the initial years when the white population of Australia consisted of a few thousand souls settled around the barren…
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AUCKLAND, Wed.--The butter ration for members of the services in New Zealand has been fixed at 8ozs. weekly from the…
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LONDON, Wed.--According to the first All-India rice forecast, India's total rice crop this year is expected to be a record…
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The appeal recently launched for the farm home, which the United Protestant Assn. has in view, was responsible for an income of over £350 in…
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CANBERRA, Fri.--The personnel of the State Dairying Advisory Committee was announced to-day by the Minister for…
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SYDNEY, Mon.--Previously intended to apply only to Sydney, Newcastle, Lithgow, West Maitland. Orange and Bathurst…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--Figures released by Government Statistician reveals that during the four years ended March 31, last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Black Market in Bran, Pollard Affects Dairying
CANBERRA, Fri.--The Commonwealth authorities have unearthed a black market in bran and pollard. It is believed black…
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SYDNEY, Fri.--Dairy farmers throughout the State should notify their National Service Officer on or before January 20, of their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Wound From Pearifle Dairyville Farmer's Death
Mr. Oscar Secomb, aged 52, a farmer of Dairyville, died in the Coff's Harbor District Hospital yesterday morning as the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Losses of Dairy Production for Lack of Men
Forty farms in the Grafton area had ceased supplying cream and pigs to Grafton Cooperative Dairy Co. as a result…
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SYDNEY, Fri.—Although some members of Parliament, representing dairying districts in the House of Representatives,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chairman Resigns After 40 Years Service To Raleigh Butter Factory
BELLINGEN, Mon.--After having served for the past 40 years as a director and for most of the period as chairman, Mr. George…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--The Agriculture Minister, Mr. Dunn, said today the main reason why dairy farms were going out of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Used Farm Machinery Prices Controlled
CANBERRA, Wed.--Maximum selling prices of secondhand farm machinery, including tractors, were subject to price control the…
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