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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1944

1,406 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 16 of 71

Employment in Dairying Industry Servicemen to Be Released

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 8 March 1944 · page 1

Arrangements have now been made by the Directorate of Manpower with the Army to release a limited number of servicemen…

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Junior Farmers' Clubs

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 8 March 1944 · page 3

The Premier, Mr. McKell. praising the achievements of the Junior Farmers' Clubs, said that the Government had increased the…

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Sheep Cheaper at Homebush

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 9 March 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY Thurs.—Pitt, Son & Badgery, Ltd., report—65,394 sheep and lambs penned, with a moderate showing of prime…

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Prisoners Like Farm Work

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 9 March 1944 · page 1

BRISBANE Thursdays—Several hundred Italian prisoners of war are helping to relieve the rural labour shortage by wording on…

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Wool Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 4

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co., Ltd., reports on 3rd inst.:- Our Appraisement No. 130 was submitted on the 1st inst., and finalised…

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Local and General Cattle Slaughtering

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 4

Cattle slaughtering in the Kearsley Shire during the past fortnight was Bovines 127, sheep 1833, pigs 1, Condemnations were, 1 bovine and 784…

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Zebu-cross Cattle for the Tropics

Maitland Mercury · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY Friday—Dr. R. B. Kelly, in a bulletin just issued by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, expresses…

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Wool and Rationing. Practical Publicity

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—Probably the best advertisement wool has ever had is the ability of the British Empire people to be…

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C.p. Vigilance in House Protection for Dairy Farmers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 3

Through the vigilance of the Country Party in the State Parliament an important amendment was included in the Pure Foods (Amendment) Bill…

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Junior Farmers' Clubs. Splendid War-time Record

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 4
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

The annual report of the Junior Farmers' Clubs Council for the year ending February 4, 1944, contains many pleasing features, among the most…

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The Dairying Industry Shows Huge Loss Sir Earle Page's Speech

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 4

The following speech was made by Sir Earl'e Page at the Dorrigo Show: To-day, the dairying industry is showing a loss of £8,000,000 a year in…

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Farmers and Graziers to Return Meat Coupons

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 4

Farmers and station owners who kill their own meat for home consumption must return their meat coupons to the Rationing…

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Junior Farmers’ Show Raymond Terrace

Maitland Mercury · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 3

RAYMOND TERRACE Friday. —The first day of the Raymond Terrace Junior Farmers‘ annual show opened this afternoon on…

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Working on Queensland Farms Italian Prisoners of War

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 1

Several hundred Italian prisoners of war are helping to relieve the rural labour shortage by working on Queensland farms…

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Dairymen in Zone Organising Branch Council Formed In Maitland

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 11 March 1944 · page 2

A branch of the Milk Zone Dairymen’s Council was formed at a meeting held in West Maitland last night. Officials state that members were being enrolled from every part of the zone, and that the council was now…

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Been Fools Too Long Dairymen’s Protest on Daylight Saving

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 11 March 1944 · page 2

A further protest against daylight saving is to be made by milk suppliers In the Maitland district. was decided at a meeting in…

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Junior Farmers’ Exhibition

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 11 March 1944 · page 3

RAYMOND TERRACE Sat. — Raymond Terrace Junior Farmers’ was continued to-day in the presence of a large crowed…

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Coastal Butter Output Down

Maitland Mercury · Monday 13 March 1944 · page 2

LISMORE Monday.—Mr. S. L. Cook, at a meeting of Norco Co-operative Ltd., said the fall in dairy production on the rich…

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Sheep Cheaper At Homebush

Maitland Mercury · Monday 13 March 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY Monday.—Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd., report: 54,852 sheep and lambs penned, chiefly medium duality and very few…

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