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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1962

39 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 2

Delay In Help For Farmers

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 January 1962 · page 1

Farmers who suffered severe damage in the flood last year are perturbed over the…

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Some Farms Flooded Many Residents Were Apprehensive

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 January 1962 · page 1

Farms in the low-lying parts of Cornwallis and Pitt Town Bottoms were flooded for the second time in two months at the week-end when the river…

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Dairy Factory In Takeover Bid

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 January 1962 · page 12

The Hawkesbury Dairy and Ice Society Ltd., at Windsor, has received substantial takeover offers from two huge dairy companies…

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Flood Relief Will Help Restore Farms

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 January 1962 · page 3

Colo Shire Flood Relief Committee will [?] £1000 of its funds in carrying out…

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Two-Year-Bond On Cattle Stealing

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 31 January 1962 · page 16

A Riverstone man, who appeared before the Windsor Court last week on a cattle stealing…

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Councils Help For Farmers Praise

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 31 January 1962 · page 12

A scheme to assist farmers in having earth-moving carried out on their…

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Flood Grants to Owner-farmers Should Apply Immediately Says V.G.A. President

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 31 January 1962 · page 3

The President of the Hawkesbury branch of the V.G.A. (Mr. K. Lewis) has appealed to all owner-farmers who suffered losses in the recent floods to…

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Dairy Society Shares C.M.I. Offer Accepted

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 7 February 1962 · page 3

The offer of Consolidated Milk Industries Ltd. for the shares of Hawkesbury Dairy and Ice Society has been accepted by a majority of the…

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Farmer’s Home Robbed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 February 1962 · page 11

There was an aftermath of the recent Hawkesbury River floods in the Windsor police…

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Restoration Work on Farms and Roads

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 February 1962 · page 3

The work of flood reinstatement on farms in the Colo Shire is still going on, although the…

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Farmers and Floods No More Unemployment Relief

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 March 1962 · page 17

A reply has now been received from the Minister for Social Services, Mr. Hugh Robertson,…

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Assistance to Farmers

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 March 1962 · page 6

The shire engineer, Mr. A. L. Cook, reported to the Colo Shire Council this week that a total amount…

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Giant Plough Helps to Restore Farms

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 11 April 1962 · page 1

A giant mouldboard plough, which can cut a furrow three feet deep, has been working for the last seven days on flood-affected farms in the Colo…

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Junior Farmers Bright Fancy Dress Ball

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 April 1962 · page 4

The Blue Danube, Richmond, was gay with balloons and greenery for the Hawkesbury Junior Farmers Fancy Dress Ball, on April 6, the array of costumes ranging from a tiny girl, dressed as a rose,…

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Windsor Farm Setting Standard In Broiler production

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 April 1962 · page 14

New production techniques being introduced by Mr. A. W. (“Bert”) Ross have focussed the attention of poultry farmers throughout the State on his…

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Forecast of Bigger Citrus Crop

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 April 1962 · page 13

A forecast that this season’s Citrus crop will be slightly larger than last season’s heavy crop shocked delegates at the annual conference of the N.S.W…

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Farmers Praise Shire Flood work

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 April 1962 · page 10

“Flood damage restoration work that had cost £50 on one farm had put £1000 in that…

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Dairy Cattle Focal Point On

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 May 1962 · page 23

The dairy cattle section of the Hawkesbury Show, which has come to be regarded as one of the best outside the Royal, will be the main attraction…

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Junior Farmers Displays Show Feature

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 9 May 1962 · page 8

The interesting and well-prepared displays by four Junior Farmer Clubs in the Agricultural Pavilion at the Hawkesbury Show were the centre of…

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Dairying Quotas Conditions Eased

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 23 May 1962 · page 17

[?] Conditions governing [?] fulfilment of milk [?] quota obliga[?] set by the N.S.W…

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