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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1950

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Seek To Join Wheat Agreement

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Friday. (A.A.P.).--Germany and Japan have made application to join the International Wheat Agreement…

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Spain Appeals for Wheat

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 3

MADRID, Sunday. (A.A.P.).--Spain, faced with a five months' whear famine, appealed yesterday to "any…

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Experiment Farm For Tamworth

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 5

The Government has acquired about 2000 acres of land as the site for an agricultural experiment farm at Tamworth…

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Ayr Cane Farmers Visit Clarence

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 2

MACLEAN, Sun.--Messrs. F. and C. Sexton, cane farmers, of Ayr, Queensland, spent a few days at Maclean on their return…

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Well-Known Resident Drops Dead At Farm

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 2

COFF'S HARBOUR, Sun.--Mr. W. H. (Budge) Morris (53), a well-known resident of Coff's Harbour for many years…

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Inquiry On Tea Butter Rationing

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.-- The Federal Treasurer (Mr. Fadden) said to-day that the Treasury had not been approached to deal with the financial aspects of the lifting…

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Expect Record Wool Cheque

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--An increase of £5,000,000 to £280,000,000, a record for the Commonwealth, is expected, from this year's…

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New Breed Sheep In United States

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 3

An all-purpose farm sheep said to produce both high quality wool and a large meat carcass has been developed in the United States…

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Prices for Wool Still Soaring

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--Wool values reached unprecedented heights to-day, when the Sydney market for all good fleece wools end skirtings rose another five per cent…

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No Request From Spain For Wheat

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wed.--Spain had not approached Australia for wheat for which she would pay dollars, the…

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Butter Price Rise For Discussion

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY,. Thurs.--An outstanding application by butter factories to Increase the price of butter by ½d. wiil be one of…

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30 Per Cent Rise In Wool Prices

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.--Wool prices in Sydney to-day reached further records. The four days' auctions of this week have seen values of top-class wools rise 30 per cent., as…

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Dorrigo Farmer Tours New Zealand (Continued from last week)

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 2

We continue the account of Mr. Keith Macindoe's recent tour of New Zealand, as one of a party of Australian farmers chosen by the…

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Winner of junior Farmer Contest

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 7

This eighteen-years-old girl of "Dowan Hill" Wiangaree, near Kyogle, was recently announced winner of the girls section in…

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Minister's Assurance On Dairying

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thurs.--The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. McEwen) to-day assured a deputation from Australia-wide dairy producers' organisations the…

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Increases in Wool Receipts

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.--There were increases of 50,000 bales received into brokers stores, and 55,000 bales in total greasy…

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Butter Output Not Equal To Pre-War

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon. -- Although butter production in N.S.W. rose to 4669 tons in December, it was still 400 tons short of the…

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Dairy Farm Competitions

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.--A series of dairy farm competitions culmirating in a State championship will be conducted in New…

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Wool Prices Cause Mutton Shortage

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Chairman of the Wholesale Butchers' Association (Mr. C. W. Hodgson) said to-day that the high…

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Butter Rationing Abolition Urged

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday. -- Abolition of butter rationing was urged to-day by the general manager of the Producers Co-operative Distributing Society (Mr. E. F. Voysey)…

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