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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

1,683 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 62 of 85

Marketing of Citrus Crop

Maitland Mercury · Monday 28 September 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY Monday.—Mr. J. Blick chairman of the New S, Wales Citrus Growers Excert states that the Department…

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Efforts to Solve farm Labour Shortage

Maitland Mercury · Monday 28 September 1942 · page 2

MELBOURNE Monday— while the Army had already reclassed thousands of men for seasonal employment, it could not hope to give sufficient relief to enable primary industries to be carried on without some dislocation and hardships,…

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Dairymen Up in Arms Threat to Strike If No Increased Prices

Singleton Argus · Monday 28 September 1942 · page 3

A meeting of 100 dairy farmers, representing 2000 Macleay and Hastings suppliers, has decided that if their request to the…

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A.a. Cattle Admired

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1942 · page 4

Aberdeen-Angus cattle caught the eye at Homebush fat stock sales on Thursday, two yards in particular being greatly admired. A consignment…

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Wool and Substitutes

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 29 September 1942 · page 3

"We are inclined to centre our thoughts too freely on the possible competition of artificial fibres with wool after the war. They are greater…

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Butter Price Must Be Increased

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 29 September 1942 · page 4

"Advices from the dairying centres of this State, and also from further afield, indicate that dairymen everywhere are up in arms…

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Drop in Butter Production Warning by Mr. Shute

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1942 · page 1

Butter production in Australia in the year ended June 30, 1942, was 22 per cent, less than that during the corresponding period…

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Wool Profits Shared After the War

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1942 · page 2

An explanation of how excess profits on the resale of wool under the original wool agreement with great Britain would be distributed…

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Money From Wool Industry. £260,000,000 Since Beginning of War. Annual Meeting of Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 29 September 1942 · page 4

In the course of a speech delivered by Mr. Harold Bell, chairman of directors of Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., at the annual meeting of the company…

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Junior Farmers' Notes

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 29 September 1942 · page 1

This week I wish to comment on the poor response of members to help with the vegetable growing project at the farm. Only two helpers had…

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Farm Labor Shortage Efforts to Find Solution

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1942 · page 2

The Minister for the Army, Mr. Forde, said at the week-end that while the Army had already released thousands of men for…

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Farmers at Law Claim for Fire Damage

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 29 September 1942 · page 3

The hearing of the case in which Arthur Philips and John Samuel Caban sued James Gordon Rennex for damages caused by a fire on…

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Demand for Increased Price for Butter

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 30 September 1942 · page 1

CANBERRA Wednesday—Federal Opposition members will make an immediate demand on the Government to give dairying…

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Gunnedah Special Cattle Sale Thursday, 24th Sept

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 September 1942 · page 4

Fleming & Ross, Licensed Auctioneers, Gunnedah, report having effected a total clearance of the yarding of 900 head at highly…

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Wool and Stock Prices War-time Levels Winchcombe Carscn Ltd. report

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 September 1942 · page 4

The price of all goods has been more effectively kept in check during the war than in the 1914-18 period. Figures for tops in the…

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Co-operative Farming Suggested

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 30 September 1942 · page 6

CANBERRA.—Wednesday.—The move by tie Commonwealth Government towards co-operative farming was supported by Mr…

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U.s. Farm Bloc and Roosevelt

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 30 September 1942 · page 4

WASHINGTON Sept. 29—Administration leaders in Congress have rejected the Farm Bloc’s new proposal to Include farmers’…

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Dairying Interests Country Party Move in Parliament Canberra

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 September 1942 · page 2

The Federal Opposition will make an immediate demand on the Government to give dairying interests increased rates for…

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Fall in Butter Output

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 1 October 1942 · page 2

Butter production in Australia in the year ended June 30, 1942, was 22 percent. less than that during the corresponding period ending in 1940, according…

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Butter Price Must Be Increased

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 1 October 1942 · page 4

"Advices from the dairying centres of this State, and also from further afield, indicate that dairymen everywhere are up in arms against the Commonwealth…

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