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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1949

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Experiment Farm For Tropical Fruits

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 September 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--A site of 123 acres near Alstonville, in the mid-Richmond area, has been selected for the…

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Scholarship Competition For Junior Farmers

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 September 1949 · page 2

Entries for the 1949 Junior Farmers' competition close on September 30. The competition, which is…

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Denies Wool Cost Raises Clothes Price

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 September 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--An Australian Wool Board statement to-day denied that the cost of raw wool was the cause…

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Fine Response To Cattle Appeal

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 September 1949 · page 3

A splendid response has been made ten the appeal for cattle on the Clarence to re-stock the flood-stricken Macleay River area…

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Question Of Rise In Butter Price

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 September 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The State Minister for Prices (Mr. Finnan) was again asked in the Legislative Assembly to-day if he would press for consideration at the next conference of Prices Commissioners, the producers' application to increase butter…

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Why Clarence Stockowners Are Helping Macleay Farmers ?

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 September 1949 · page 3

Clarence farmers are rallying to the aid of their brother producers who have lost their stock on the Macleay in the flood which devastated the countryside…

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Pleasing Response To Cattle Appeal

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 September 1949 · page 2

Although the appointed canvassers had not yet entered seriously upon their work heartening reports are…

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Petrol Rationing Penalised Farmers

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 September 1949 · page 4

WOOLGOOLGA, Wednesday.--A more equitable distribution of petrol for farmers, if petrol rationing is introduced again, will be sought by the North Coast District Council of R.S.L. Sub-Branches…

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Cattle Donations

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 September 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--N.S.W. dairy farmers had donated 250 head of cattle to victims of the Kempsey floods, the Milk Board reported…

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Report Shows Fall In Butter Output

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 September 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.--Production of butter in N.S.W. for the year ended June, 1949, was 671 tons or 1.9.7 per cent. lower than that produced during the previous year, the report of the N.S.W. Dairy Products Board states…

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Farmers Lose in Political Game

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 September 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.--While consumers would be protected little consideration would be given to the just demands of dairy farmers, Mr. Frith (C.P., Lismore) said during the Budget debate in the Legislative Assembly to-day…

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Butter Price Is Federal Matter

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 October 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.--It was "quite wrong" to keep the dairy farmers of Australia in uncertainty about the extra 3d in price which has been recommended by the Dairy Costing Committee, Sir Earle Page, M. H. R., said to-day…

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Cattle Entries For Lismore Show

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 October 1949 · page 5

A record total of 698 entries has been received for the cattle section at the 1949 North Coast National Exhibition to be staged…

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Will Hold Field Day At Experiment Farm

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 October 1949 · page 2

A field day will be held at the Grafton Experiment Farm on Thursday, October 13, said the manager of the Farm (Mr. M. J…

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Migrants Needed for Farm Labour

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 October 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.--Displaced person migrants were needed to overcome a grave labour shortage on North Coast dairy farms, Mr. M. R. Buttsworth, a Taree dairy farmer, said to-day. Mr. Buttsworth was speaking…

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Proposed Cattle Compensation Bill

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 3

"What I said was that consideration was being given to the establishment of a Cattle Compensation Fund to meet…

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Erosion On Soldier Settler's Farm

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 4

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) states that the only eroded portion of a Soldier Settler's farm bn Deepwater Estate…

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Progressive Farmer Reports Published

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 4

Technical reports of members of the Rural Bank's Progressive Farmer Team have just been published…

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Decide Butter Price Rise Not Justified

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--Although fresh evidence supporting the producers''application for an increase in the price of butter…

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Bright Outlook For Dorrigo Dairy Co-op

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 4

DORRIGO, Tues.--It was reported at the 85th half-yearly meeting of the Dorrigo Co-op. Dairy Co. shareholders that 562…

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