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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1947

778 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 28 of 39

P.P.U. Criticised Upheld on Butter Cost Question

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 19 September 1947 · page 3

At the quarterly meeting of Raleigh District Council of the Primary Producers' Union, on 30th August, there was much…

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Wheat And Corn Prices Tumble At Chicago

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 September 1947 · page 1

CHICAGO, Fri. (A.A.P.).—Wheat and corn prices tumbled on the Chicago Board of Trade yesterday, falling the full limit allowed in a single day's…

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Potato Crops at Wood Ord Dale

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 September 1947 · page 3

WOOLFORD DALE.—Several potato crops in the district are locking removably well. A good hardest would be assured by a…

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Maintain Pressure For Junior Farmer Supervisor

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 September 1947 · page 3

MEMBERS of the Advisory Council of the Grafton Junior Farmers' Club, at a meeting held at the High School, urged organisations on the Clarence to continue direct representations to the Minister until a supervisor had been appointed…

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Wool for Japan

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 September 1947 · page 3

TOKIO, Mon.—The Japanese Board of Trade to-day had not yet been informed by General MacArthur's Headquarters of the…

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Experiments Prove Butter Superior

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 September 1947 · page 2

Experiments in Holland and the United States have demonstrated the superiority of butter over other animal fats and vegetable…

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Butter Price Reports

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 September 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—The Chairman of the Joint Dairy Advisory Committee (Mr. Crawford), in an official statement to-day, denied…

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Recommendation On Butter Prices

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 September 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Joint Dairy Industry Advisory Committee expects to make a recommendation to the Federal Government on butter prices utter the meeting to be held on October 2, said the General President of the P.P.U. (Mr. R. C. Gibson)…

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Wool for Japan

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 September 1947 · page 2

TOKIO, Wed. (A.A.P.-Reuter).—Although Japan, through General MacArthur's Headquarter Will buy wool from Australia…

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Price Level For Wool

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 September 1947 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wed—There could be no certainty if the present price level for wool would continue far into the future, the…

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Reconstitution Of Dairy Produce Board

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 September 1947 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wed.—The Australian Dairy Produce Board is to be reconstituted to provide for 12 members instead of the existing…

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Price Correction To Save Dairy Industry

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 September 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The correction of price conditions within the dairying industry was the only way by which the serious decline in cattle numbers in the industry could be corrected, said the General President of the P.P.U. (Mr. R. C. Gibson) to-day…

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19 Tons Butter for August Production Increases Dorrigo Dairy Coy's Monthly Report

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 26 September 1947 · page 1

During the month of August, 1947, the quantity of butter manufactured by the Dorrigo Dairy Coy. was 19 tons 18 cwt 16 lbs, being an increase…

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Heavy Damage By Fire At Wool Factory

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 September 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs. — Damage estimated at £75,000 was caused by fire in the woolcarbonising factory and wool store of F. W…

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Price Of Butter No Production Threat Futile On North Coast

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 September 1947 · page 7

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. A. H. Warne told the Central Executive Council of the P.P.U. that something other than threats of "no production" were required if the price offered as a result of the Joint Dairying Industry Advisory Committee's report was…

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Means Of Lifting Dairy Production

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 September 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Too much emphasis was being placed on the ability of proved sires to lift dairy production, as against proper herd feeding, it was claimed by Mr. R. C. Gibson, president of the P.P.U., at the Central Executive Council meeting…

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M'sP Increase Pay Not Butter Price

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 September 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—The action of the Federal Parliamentarians in holding up increases in butter prices to dairymen for more than two years, and granting themselves a 50 per cent. increase in salary in two weeks, was questioned at the P.P.U. Executive…

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Butter Price

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 September 1947 · page 2

IT is pleasing to note what apparently is a change of heart in the president the Primary Producers' Union (Mr. R. C. Gibson), In the past, the attitude of the president has given rise to the impression that he considers the dairy farmer is unreasonable in…

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Orara Valley Junior Farmers

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 September 1947 · page 3

KARANGI.—A meeting of the Orara Valley Junior Farmers was Held in the Karangi school with the president Mr. Towells in the…

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Butter Price

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 October 1947 · page 2

Sir.—I am very surprised that the leader in to-day's "Examiner" suggests that Mr. Gibson, general president of the P.P. Union at…

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