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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1948

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Wheat Agreement To Be Reviewed

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thursday.--A Cabinet sub-ccmmittee will to-morrow review the international wheat agreement in the face of…

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Increased Return For Dairymen

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thurs.--The present return to farmers at the factory door will be increased by 2d. per lb. commercial butter…

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Move By Farmers To Help Those In Flood Trouble

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 June 1948 · page 2

A suggestion for a good neighbour policy has been suggested in the Nana Glen district to help stockowners on…

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Dairy Produce Export Control Act

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 June 1948 · page 3

CANBERRA, Fri.—Proclamation bringing the Daily Produce Export Control Act 1947, into operation from July 1 next, was…

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Junior Farmer Projects At Nana Glen

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 June 1948 · page 5

The District Supervisor of Junior Farmer Clubs (Mr. J. R. Paulett), in a report, states that recently the Nana Glen Club…

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Japs Want Wheat

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 June 1948 · page 1

TOKIO, Mon. (A.A.P.-Reuter).—Leading Japanese flour milling interests to-day appealed to Australia to ship to Japan, at least…

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Conference Likely On Wheat Agreement

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 June 1948 · page 3

CANBERRA, Mon.—Another conference of State Ministers for Agriculture is likely to be called in view of the failure of the…

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Nana Glen Farmers Offer To Take Cattle Free Of Cost

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 June 1948 · page 3

Nana Glen's "good neighbour" policy of helping Clarence stockowners in trouble through the flood has already…

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State Boards To Handle Coming Potato Crop

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 June 1948 · page 2

The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr. R. T. Pollard) has advised Sir Earle Page, M.H.R., that the coming potato…

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Seasonal Decline In Butter Output

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--Butter production in New South Wales [?] 2121 tons for May show [?]duction of 572…

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Clarence Cattle At Nana Glen

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 July 1948 · page 3

NANA GLEN, Wed.--Following the offer by Nana Glen farmers of free grazing for cattle from the flooded areas of the Clarence,…

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Price of Butter Up To-day

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 July 1948 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wednesday.--Butter will be 2½d per 1b dearer, and cheese 1d per 1b dearer from to- morrow. The Prices Commissioner (Mr. McCarthy) announced…

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Inverell Farmers Seek New States: "Will Be Day Of Reckoning"

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 July 1948 · page 2

"There is a day of reckoning," declared Mr. A. E. Cosh, at a meeting of the Inverell District Council of the Farmers and…

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Dairy Industry Hit By Flood Afterma[?]

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 July 1948 · page 2

PALMER'S CHANNEL.--though stock losses in the [?] were light dairy herds [?] considerably. It will be…

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Farmer Designs Fastener To Save Wire During Floods

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 July 1948 · page 4

POINTING out that very few farmers had escaped damaged or washed away fences during the recent flood, Mr. Alwin H. Green, of Swan Creek, said yesterday he had designed and patented a wire fastener which would save the loss of valuable…

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More For Butter

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 July 1948 · page 2

THE leader of a prominent women's organisation in Sydney has strongly criticised the increased price of butter. Such a complaint shows that the dairy industry must do something to educate the rest of the community on the difficulties it is up against…

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Average Dairy Cow Not Fed Enough

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 2 July 1948 · page 7

The president of the Australian Institute of Butter Factory Managers (Mr. W. Cheers) said people were prone to condemn…

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Water Hyacinth Smothers Farms

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 July 1948 · page 2

Hyacinth, in places between four and six feet deep, has been strewn over the Waterview area by the flood waters…

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Govt. Plan To Aid Dairy Industry

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.--Details of the Commonwealth Government's plan to spend £250,000 a year for five years to promote improved farm practices in the dairying industry, and thereby stimulate production, were announced by the Minister for Commerce…

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Lower River Farmers Support The Gorge Scheme

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 July 1948 · page 2

PALMER'S IS.--Unanimous support for the construction of the Gorge Scheme was given at a meeting of the Lower…

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