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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

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Butter Tax Preferred to Subsidy

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 May 1951 · page 6

Financing of increased returns to dairy farmers for butter by means of sales tax instead of by subsidy, was…

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Revive Interest In Work Of Junior Farmers

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 May 1951 · page 4

A long debate took place at the Clarence District Council meeting of the Junior Farmer movement at Grafton…

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Junior Farm Camp At Next Show

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 May 1951 · page 4

Clarence District Council of the Junior Farmer movement yesterday decided to approach the Clarence P. and A. Society for permission to conduct a Junior Farmer camp at the showground during the…

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Junior Farmers. Clarence Area In Two Sections

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 May 1951 · page 4

The Clarence District Council of the Junior Farmer movement at the meeting at Grafton yesterday, decided to divide the Clarence district into two, and to appoint a regional council to include…

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Crop Conditions

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 May 1951 · page 4

TYNDALE.--Generally young plant cane crops are in a backward condition, due to the unfavourable weather, when…

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New Wool Plan

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 May 1951 · page 1

CANBERRA, Mon.--The Minister for Commerce (Mr. McEwen) to-night announced details of the minimum reserve…

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Slow Delivery of Stud Cattle

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 May 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--Many stud beef cattle purchased in Britain for Australia may not reach this country until next year because of the slow turn round of shipping and the New Zealand waterfront…

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Might Have To Import Butter

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 May 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--The general manager of the Commonwealth Dairy Produce Equalisation Committee Ltd. (Mr. Chris Sheehy) to-day forecast that in the near future Australia might have to…

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Crisis Develops In Dairying

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 May 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tues.--A crisis had developed in the dairying industry, and special action must he taken by the Commonwealth Government to meet the position, the president of the Victorian Dairy…

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Junior Farmers At Clarence Shows

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 May 1951 · page 5

The Junior Farmer exhibit at the 1951 Grafton Show was a great improvement on previous efforts said the District…

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Cheap Butter in Australia

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 May 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--The general manager of the Producers' Co-operative Distributing Society (Mr. E. F. Voysey) said to-day that Australians were getting butter so cheap that they could afford to…

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Wool Tax A "Bad Blow"

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 May 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.--The wool deduction tax was a "bad blow to State branches" the chairman of the Queensland branch of the…

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Crushing Starts On Record Crop

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 May 1951 · page 2

The Colonial Sugar Refining Company's mill at Harwood at 2 p.m. yesterday commenced crushing this year's sugar cane crop, which has been estimated at a record of 164,000 tons…

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Worm Parasities in Cattle

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 25 May 1951 · page 6

The following address was delivered by the District Veterinary Officer, Mr. J. S. Healey, at the field day held at Valery…

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Might Have to Import Butter

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 25 May 1951 · page 1

The general manager of the Commonwealth Dairy Produce Equalisation Committee Ltd. (Mr. Chris Sheehy) forecast that in the near future Australia might have to import butter from New Zealand…

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Mr. Graham Favors Dutch Migrants For Dairy Industry

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 25 May 1951 · page 7

The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., said in the Legislative Assembly that he would suggest to the Federal…

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Farmers—A Timely Warning!

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 25 May 1951 · page 1

Dorrigo's chief of police Sergeant Dowell wishes to remind farmers that their agricultural, dairying and pastoral statistical returns for…

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Small Crops Flourishing

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 25 May 1951 · page 5

Evidence of the fertility and suitability of district soils for small crop growing is apparent in the township at present. The…

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Damp Conditions And the Farmer

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 25 May 1951 · page 4

The continued wet weather over the past week hampered cultivation operations in the district. Banana growers had a damp…

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Butter Production

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 May 1951 · page 4

CANBERRA, Fri--Commonwealth Statistician, (Dr. R. Wilson), revealed to-day that production of factory butter…

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