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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1969

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

Farmer Found Stolen Pump

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 January 1969 · page 5

A farmer whose irrigation pump had been stolen later found it irrigation a farm about…

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Duck Farm “Offensive Industry”

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 February 1969 · page 11

An intensive duck farm at Wilberforce “at least constitutes an offensive industry” three…

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Farmer Hits Back at Councillor

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 March 1969 · page 8

An alleged statement by a Colo Shire councillor that a fanner was using Crown land has…

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Mushroom Farm on the Nose!

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 March 1969 · page 24

Complaints of obnoxious odours emanating from a mushroom farm at McGrath’s Hill has…

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Farmer’s Wife Publishes Paper-back

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 April 1969 · page 28

A farmer’s wife who had no formal schooling other than a sixth grade Correspondence Course, has just published a paper-back, “My…

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Compulsory Tagging of Cattle

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 June 1969 · page 4

Concern at the lack of response from cattle owner in applying at an early date for registration of…

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Massive Crops Ahead Citrus Growers Warned

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 June 1969 · page 16

Citrus growers should not be lulled into a sense of security because of the lighter crop…

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Kept Faith With Farmers, Developers ( To the Editor)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 23 July 1969 · page 2

Sir,- I would appreciate the privilege of disagreeing with your editorial (Gazette 16/7/69)…

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Store Cattle Sale

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 30 July 1969 · page 5

Milking cows realised up to $184 at the Parramatta Livestock Pty. Ltd.’s special sale at Homebush…

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Drainage Bad at Duck Farm

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 6 August 1969 · page 13

Unsatisfactory drainage on a duck farm on the Wilberforce - Kurmond Road, Wilberforce, was…

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Farmer Run Over By Own Tractor

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 13 August 1969 · page 1

Pinned underneath his own tractor a Bowen Mount farmer directed his neighbour…

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Cattle Tagging Date Set

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 September 1969 · page 14

Tagging of cattle will become compulsory on November 1. the Member for Agriculture has…

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Farm Safety Laws “Must be Practical”

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 September 1969 · page 3

Any legislation to promote greater rural safety must be practical, United Farmers and Woolgrowers’…

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Interest by Foreign Farmers

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 8 October 1969 · page 2

Increased interest by foreign farmers in the activities of the Hawkesbury branch of the…

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Long Struggle to Unite Farmers

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 November 1969 · page 19

The struggle to unite all farmers into one organisation had begun in 1870, when the first seed of the United Farmers and Woolgrowers’…

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Farming Community Hit Hard by Flood

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 November 1969 · page 1

With losses in potato crops alone estimated at some 1500,000, the Hawkesbury farming community has been hit hard by the flood, which rose to 33 ft. at Windsor on Saturday…

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Bigger Crops But Smaller Return

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 November 1969 · page 26

Although citrus crops in the M.I.A. were generally bigger, the gross return had slipped in…

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Farmers to Watch Presentation

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 November 1969 · page 28

Farmers have [?] they can no longe[?] the public second grade produce…

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and now a cow “hotel” Big-Operator Benefits For Small Dairy Farmers

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 December 1969 · page 28

A British farming magazine and four farmers have joined forces in one of the most ambitious experiments in co-operation ever…

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Farmers Worried About Soil Quarry Near River

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 December 1969 · page 4

A vast hole, up to 40 ft, deep, not far from the Hawkesbury River bank at Cornwallis is worrying farmers in the area…

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