Butter Price Deadlock No Progress Made At Conference
Canberra, August 14.—The conference between the Federal Minister for Commerce, Mr. McEwen, and representatives of the dairy…
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Farming & the land, 1951
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40 Hour Week for Dairymen
Melbourne. — Victorian dairy farm workers have been grantpd a forty-hour week…
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Canberra, August 16.—The Commonwealth Government should meet the increased price of butter through a subsidy drawn from…
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Sydney.— Far North Coast dairymen are likely to withhold supplies of butter and cheese from the N.S.W. market until granted price increases. Lismore dairy…
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London, August 16.— A joint scheme by Britain Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to prevent violent…
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Auckland (N.Z.).— Wool sales crashed 65 per cent, to 40d. a 1b. from an average of 115d. a lb. paid in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Butter May Rise by 11½ Pence Per Pound Commonwealth Govt. Agreeable To Formula To Break Deadlock
Canberra, August 17. — Mr. Menzies told the Premiers conference today that the Commonwealth was agreeable to the proposed new formula to break the deadlock on butter prices. The new plan, to which three States have already…
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Dairy farm workers in Victoria have been granted a 40-hour week, two weeks of annual leave, six days of sick leave per year and various wage rates…
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Sydney.— The State Cabinet will examine a suggestion by the South Australian Premier (Mr. Playford) for…
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While population hod increased in Australia by 20 per cent, in 12 years milk production hod risen by only one per cent says the Bank of New South Wales in its…
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Sydney. — The Premier (Mr. McGirr) announced today that the Slate Cabinet yesterday decided to, increase…
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Sydney.— Butter producers rlissatisned with the 6d. 1b. increase threaten to export all supplies or discontinue…
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Sydney, August 21.—The Premier (Mr. McGirr) to-day announced that NSW had agreed to increase the…
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Police are inquiring into an allegation of sheep stealing at the Abattoirs, said the proprietor of Paddy's…
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Sydney.— Many Sydney grocers have "beaten the gun" on the butter price increase and are already charging 2/8 a 1b. Though Mr. McGirr announced last Tuesday that butter would be increased by 6d. a lb., the increase will probably not be gazetted…
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Canberra, August 22.—The Minister for Commerce (Mr. McEwen) soid yesterday the people of N.S.W. and Queenslond would be without butter unless their Governments fell into line with the southern States in accepting the Commonwealth's…
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Sydney—Sydney and Newcastle will be without butter next week unless supplies are maintained from country districts. According to distributors…
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Sydney—Brokers expect wool values to be fully maintained when the new season sales begin in Sydney on Monday following the Federal Government's decision…
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Canbera— A high, Government source said last Government was worried about the inflationary…
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Canberra.— A. high Government source said ' last night the Government was worried about the inflationary…
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