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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1949

656 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 14 of 33

Power Tariff To Dorrigo Farmers

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 May 1949 · page 3

A recommendation that the electricity tariff for residential consumers at Dorrigo be applied to farmers now being supplied at…

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Butter Rationing Question

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 2

CANBERRA, Tues.—Lifting of butter rationing for cafes and other eating establishments in Victoria would have…

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Dairying Power State Matter

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 2

CANBERRA, Tuesday.--The Minister fop Agriculture (Mr. Pollard) in the House of Representatives to-day told Sir Earle…

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Butter Contract With Denmark

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 June 1949 · page 1

LONDON. Wed. (AAP).--A Danish delegation is in England to negotiate a long-term butter contract, between…

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Wool Jersey Jacket Dress

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 June 1949 · page 4

Woven wool jersey slipped in duck-egg blue and cocoa has beep cleverly used for the jacket dress from Victor Stiebel. The jacket is simple and fitted, the only detail is the inset bands at waist and midriff and edging the sleeves, and in the novel suede buckle…

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Letters To The Editor Cane Farmer Problems

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 June 1949 · page 2

Sir,--After hearing of the problems of the cane farmers at the mass meeting held in Maclean on Friday, I made some inquiries…

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Crops Damaged by Crows

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 June 1949 · page 4

PALMER'S ISLAND, Wed.-- Thousands of crows are causing damage to maize, peas and tomato crops…

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Sydney Sheep Sales

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.--With the close of the merino sales at the Sydney Showground to-day sales reached the record aggregate of…

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Expert Warns on Lag in Butter Output

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 6

A warning was issued in Sydney this week that in a few years Australia may have to import butter from…

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No £100,000 Factory For Dorrigo COW & Gate Offer Rejected Directors Confer with Co-operative Dairy Association

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 1

On Wednesday, May 18, Messrs. Robinson and Hammond, of Cow and Gate Ltd., England, approached the Board of Directors of the Dorrigo Co-op. Dairy Co. Ltd., in an endeavour to obtain milk supplies for the manufacture of tinned milks and baby foods…

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Seasonal Decline in Dairy Production

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 1

Dairy production is showing the usual seasonal decline, although some factories report an increase over…

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Foxes Cause Havoc on Poultry Farms

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 2

Foxes have been causing destruction at some Clarence River poultry farms. Most severe damage was that…

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Larger Potato Crop, But Acreage Smaller

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 3

THIS year's potato crops were generally better than last_ year as regards yield, although the acreage was smaller, said the president of the Clarence District Council of the P.P.U. (Mr, V. D.Jones) yesterday…

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Heavy Crop

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 4

Mr. M. J. Everingham. of Grafton has harvested a heavy crop of Factor potatoes. From an area of about six acres, it is…

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Profits Of Wool Firm

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 June 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday. Profit made by Goldsbrough, Mort Ltd., woolbrokers for the year ended March 31, was£455,867 after…

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Request to Police on Straying Cattle

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 June 1949 · page 6

BELLINGEN.--The Chamber of Commerce here is to ask the Commissioner of Police to mod fy the present regulations forbidding…

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Fall In American Wool Purehases

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 June 1949 · page 1

CANBERRA, Friday.-- United States purchases of Australian greasy wool continue to fall off. Statistics released to-day by the…

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Dairying industry And 40-Hour Week

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 June 1949 · page 6

BELLINGEN.--The Central Executive of the P.P.U. and the P. general president, Mr. R. C. Gibson, came in, for some criticism at the quarterly meeting of Raleigh District Council at Urunga, on the relationship Of the dairying industry to the 40…

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Inspector Wanted for Autumn Potato Crop

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 June 1949 · page 2

ULMARRA.--At a well attended monthly meeting of the Ulmarra branch of the P.P.U., which was chaired by Mr. C. M…

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Getting Single Unit Farm Wonder Of 443 Days

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 June 1949 · page 2

MUCH has been written about the single unit farm scheme, instituted as a rehabilitation measure about two years ago…

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