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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

1,730 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 54 of 87

Prime Minister Urges Growers’ Support for Wool Price Plan

Maitland Mercury · Monday 6 August 1951 · page 2

CANBERRA: The Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies) has asked Australian wool growers to approve the reserve price plan for wool “in their own interests end in the interests of Australian economy.”…

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Apprenticeships In Farming

Maitland Mercury · Monday 6 August 1951 · page 4

Schemes to apprentice lads to farming are not common, and agriculturists in Scotland believe that their farm apprenticeship…

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Dairy Farmers' Threat to Withhold Butter Demand For New Price To Be Made This Week

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 7 August 1951 · page 2

LISMORE: Some North Coast dairy farmers have threatened to ask factories to withhold butter supplies if a price equal to the cost of production is not announced this week…

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Why Milk And Butter Are Short Problem of the Dairying Industry

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 August 1951 · page 1

Commenting on the current shortages of milk and butter, Mr. J. T. Reid, Country Party M.L.A. for Casino,…

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The Muswellbrooke Chronicle TUESDAY, 7th AUGUST, 1951. Junior Farmers at Brisbane Show. Cliff Blake Gains a First and Second

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 August 1951 · page 3

Clifford Blake, of the Muswellbrook Junior Farmers' Club, gained two prizes at the Brisbane Royal Show…

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Junior Farmers' Club At Paterson

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 7 August 1951 · page 2

At a meeting held in the Public School, Paterson, it was decided to form a Junior Farmers' Club, and an adult…

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Police Course On Sheep And Wool

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: Ten detectives, undergoing a special course at East Sydney Technical College, will later be sent to country areas to…

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Price Of Butter

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 2

The New South Wales Premier (Mr. McGirr) said last night that Cabinet had decided not to increase the retail price of butter,…

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Sheep Flocks Rising Supplies and Demand

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: The wool market as yet does not definitely show stability. It possibly will…

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Our Letter Box (To the Editor) Wool Stabilisation Plan

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 1

Sir,— Wool growers throughout Australia have now received their ballot papers and the fate of the…

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Bandon Grove Junior Farmers Exhibition Promises Big Success

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 1

The coming Junior Farmers' Exhibition in Bandon Grove Hall on Saturday, 18th August, promises to be a most successful fixture…

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Milk Zone Dairymen's Council And ,40-Hour Week

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 2

The Industrial Arbitration (40-Hour Week) Amendment Act, 1947, took effect in 1947, but certain awards,…

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Dairying

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 5

Mr. A. Fairhall, M.P. askd in the House last week: "In view of the urgent for increased dairy production throughout…

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Butter Position Not “Entirely Hopeless”

Maitland Mercury · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY: The butter positions in New South Wales was “entirely hopeless,” the manager of Ner[?]o Co-op. Ltd. (Mr. H. S. Eddington) declared to-day. Mr. Eddington said that the federal Government’s…

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States Retain Control Of Butter Prices

Maitland Mercury · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 2

CANBERRA: The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr J. Mc[?]wen) announced last night that the Commonwealth will not increase the butter subsidy, and has left the States to fix their own retail butter prices…

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Producer Says Butter Position Now "Hopeless"

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday.—The butter position in New South Wales was now hopeless, the manager of "Norco," Mr. H…

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Fears For Wool Price

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—N.S.W. Graziers' Association fears a sharp drop in the price of wool at the new season's sales…

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Wool Men Aim High

Maitland Mercury · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY: Woolclassers’ claim of [?]34/12/8 a week tor combined duties or wool rolling and classing was rejected by Federal…

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Why Butter Is Short (To the Editor)

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 8

Sir,—Regarding above, Mr. Hewitt appears to be amused, but he could hardly be so if he read the criticism of…

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Butter Position "Hopeless." Stocks at Low Level. N.S.W. Dependent on Other States. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 2

The butter position in New South Wales is now "entirely hopeless," the manager of Norco Co.-Op. Ltd., Mr. H. S…

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