Wool Appraisements
On Thursday, 4th November, 1943, Messrs Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., Newcastle, submitted to appraisement 3600 bales, drawn principally from…
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Farming & the land, 1943
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Improved War Position Revives Question Of Wool Substitutes (Issued by Department of Information)
Some anxiety about the future of the wool industry, which for the time being was relieved by the wartime purchase of Australia's clip by the British Government, is again being manifested. For four years, the fear of heightened competition from artificial fibres was pushed into the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm Mechanisation Scheme Practical Service Capacity Extended
I am pleased to announce that my Government has decided to enlarge the scope and therefore the real service-giving value, of the farm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Communists to Dig for Farmers. Working Bee to Harvest Potatoes, Onions
At an all-day meeting of the Hunter Valley District Committee of the Communist Party, held on the anniversary of the October Revolution, last Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farm Home Control of Diseases and Pests
The following hints for vegetable growers are given in the November number of a home gardening bulletin issued by the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Help for Dairymen
Mr. Rowley James, M.P., has written to Mr. James McKeachie, producers' representative on the Milk Board, stating that he will immediately take…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers Fined and Gaoled But Miners ? ? ?
Sir Earle Page, speaking at Kempsey, said: "As food is as important as coal to Australia and the United Nations, the Clarence dairy farmer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Communists to Dig for Farmers
After Hearing a report by Mr. E. Jurd, farmer, of Largs and secretary of the West Maitland branch of the Communist Party,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Report
The Farmers & Graziers' Co-op. Co Ltd. reports on the 9th inst.: We submitted our Appraisement Catalogue No. 120 on Thursday, 4th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Sale
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. submitted a catalogue of 2,270 bales in the Newcastle centre for final appraisement…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Farmers Favour "United Front" Decision to Link Up with Dairymen's Milk Zone Council Early Suspicion Turns to Unanimous Majority
At one of the largest meetings of farmers of the Singleton district held here for some time decision was yesterday reached to support the Dairymen's Milk Zone Council. Some 40 dairy farmers attended…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Model Farmyard Exhibition
SYDNEY Wed.— An exhibition of model farmyard animals made by Mrs. Penrose Johnston, of Armidale, who is 85 years of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Meeting of Dairymen Singleton
SINGLETON Wed.—Although there was a suspicious air in the early stages of the proceedings there was a unanimous voice…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rural Award And The Dairy Industry Producers’ Evidence Before Milk Board
Giving evidence at the Milk Board’s prices inquiry at West Maitland Courthouse this morning, a dairyman said he could not pay the sward wage to his employees unless he got a rise in the price of milk…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Comforts Wool Distribution
At the annual meeting of the War Comforts Fund, Mrs. D. Wattus, distributor, reported that up to the end of June, 1943, 121 skeins of wool then on hand have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Labour For Dairy Farms
Giving evidence before the prices Inquiry of the Milk Board at West Maitland yesterday afternoon, the National Service officer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Junior Farmers' Club
At the Shire meeting on November 5th the Junior Farmers' Club asked the Council for permission to use the Show Ground for a Show in March next year…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Difficulties Facing Farmers
MUSWELLBROOK Thurs. — The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture has written to the shire council stating that his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm Labour
SYDNEY Thursday—The Deputy Director General of Manpower (Mr, Bellemore) stated that farmers desiring to secure…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Test Player Now Farmer
CONDON Nov. 10—The former English wicketkeeper G. Duck worth is now a farmer at Warrington Lan[?] where he has…
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