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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1948

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Agriculture Students At Cattle Property

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 May 1948 · page 2

Sydney University agricultural students, who made a trip to Boolneringbar station yesterday, were told by Mr. Don Page about…

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More Honors for Dorrigo Dairy Factory Ties for Butter Aggregate Gains Another Merit Certificate

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 28 May 1948 · page 1

More honours came to Dorrigo this week when the results of the competitions conducted by the N.S.W. Division of the…

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Rotary Hoe Secured for School Farm

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 28 May 1948 · page 2

At a meeting of the Maclean P. &. C. Assn. the Headmaster, Mr. L. W. Kelsey, reported he had been informed that rotary hoe of 5 hp, costing…

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Farm Accidents

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 28 May 1948 · page 4

American health authorities are becoming alarmed at the incidence of accidents among agricultural workers. When automobile accidents are…

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NSW Progressive Farmer In California

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 May 1948 · page 1

Mr. Wallace Meares, of Forbes a mixed farmer member of the Rurd Bank progressive Farmer ream which is now on a world tour, discusses irrigation with a Californian vegetable grower…

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New Zealand Farmers To Visit Grafton

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 May 1948 · page 2

A party of New Zealand farmers would visit Grafton, On June 17 and 18, it was stated at yesterday's meeting of the…

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Forty Hour Week Proposed For Farmers

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 May 1948 · page 3

ON the casting vote of the president (Mr. V. D. Jones), the Clarence District Council of the P.P.U. yesterday defeated a motion that the Dairy Industry Award be reduced from 56 to 40 hours to bring it into line with other industries…

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Coupon-Free Week To Buy Butter

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 May 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri.--Grocers will be allowed a coupon-free week next month for the purchase of butter from…

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Levy On All Butter Sought By Producers

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 May 1948 · page 3

A RESOLUTION asking that the Dairy Produce Board put a levy on all butter manufactured in New South Wales to finance the P.P.U., was unanimously agreed to at the quarterly meeting of the Clarence District Council of the Primary Producers Union…

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To Secure Aust. Wheat for India

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 May 1948 · page 3

CANBERRA. Fri.--Sir Datar Singh additional secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Vice-Chairman of the Indian…

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Share Farm Tenancy Appeal Abandoned

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 May 1948 · page 2

An appeal against the decision of Mr. E. I. Cocks, S.M., in the farm tenacy action at Casino on May 6 'has been abandoned by…

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Members Of New Dairy Board

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 May 1948 · page 6

CANBERRA, Fri.--The Chief Commonwealth Electoral Officer (Mr. Turner) to-day announced the results of the…

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Drift From Dairying Is Serious, Problem

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 June 1948 · page 3

PREVENTING the drift from the dairying industry and restoring production to pre-war figures were the most important problems in the dairying industry to-day, Mr. A. E. Harrison, manager of the Grafton Co-operative Dairy Society declared in…

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Attack On Wheat Agreement

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wed.--The International Wheat. Agreement would take between £12. and. £13 million out of the pockets…

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Meat, Butter Sent to Palestine

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 3

CANEERRA, Thursday.--The Leader of the Country Party (Mr. Fadden) suggested in the House of Representatives to-day the…

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Won't End Meat, Butter Rationing

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thurs.--The Federal Government was not likely to end meat and butter rationing in the near future…

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Country Betting Farmers Don't Like "Back Door" Tactics P.P.U. to Request Legalising of S.P. BETTING

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 2

An endeavour to have S.P. book makers registered is being made by the Raleigh PPU district. This matter was brought before the…

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Junior Farmers' Day

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 2

A successful junior farmer field day was held on the property of Mr. J. W. Hayes, at Nana Glen yesterday. About 150 boys…

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Butter Retailers Given Concession

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 2

In response to representations made by the Interstate conference of Retail Grocers and Storekeepers Association concerning…

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Butter Dumped on Brisbane Wharves

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sun.--Twenty-one thousand boxes of Queensland butter were dumped on Brisbane wharves yesterday from the…

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