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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1955

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Clearing Farms of Sand and Debris Valley Cooperative Movement Planned

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 April 1955 · page 2

Employment Service officials in the Hunter Valley ere working out final details for what is expected to be the biggest co-operative movement in the history of the farming community…

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Conservation Organisation Formed by Hunter Farmers Watch Dog On Problems Until Solution Found

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 April 1955 · page 3

Six hundred Hunter Valley primary producers to-day unanimously formed a permanent “watch dog” organisation in the Hunter Valley. organisation will be known as the Hunter Valley Conservation Organisation and will embrace the 80,000 square miles of the Hunter Valley…

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Fat Cattle Market £2 Dearer

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 April 1955 · page 3

A good quality yarding of 700 fat cattle at Maitland saleyards to-day consisted mainly of vealers and cows,…

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Dane Farm Men Locked Out

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 April 1955 · page 1

COPENHAGEN: A lock-out of 70,000 farm and dairy workers, who are demanding a shorter summer working day…

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Appeal to Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 April 1955 · page 5

SINGLETON: Farmers in Wyong, Gresford and Vacy districts will be asked to give voluntary assistance to…

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Bigger U.s. Wool Buying Forecast

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 19 April 1955 · page 4

The Australian member of the International Wool Secretariat (Mr. Ewan Waterman) believes that U.S. foreign wool buying will increase stabstfanially…

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Drop In Returns From Wool Sales

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 19 April 1955 · page 4

Wool sold at auction in Australia in the nine months ended March 31 realised £49,700,000 less than in the…

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Bank of New South Wales Assistance for Junior Farmers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 19 April 1955 · page 4

The Bank of New South Wales assistance to Junior Farmers in New South Wales during 1955 has been…

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Holidays for Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 19 April 1955 · page 3

THE HAGUE: A plea for annual holidays for farmers and marker gardeners was made at Alkmaar by Mr. S. L…

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Assistance for for Junior Farmers

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 21 April 1955 · page 5

The Bank of New South Wales assistance to Junior Farmers in New South Wales during 1955…

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Dairymen Protest Against Allocation For Removal Of Homes

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 21 April 1955 · page 2

The Maitland branch of the Milk Zone Dairyman’s Council last night protested strongly against the Maitland Flood Relief Committee’s allocation of £50,000 for the removal of homes to high land…

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Helping Production On Farms

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 21 April 1955 · page 1

It is the policy of the flood relief charter to provide relief for owner farmers and share and tenant famers to…

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Unemployed Benefits To Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 21 April 1955 · page 6

The [?]Major of Maitland (Ald, C. L. Hob[?]son) returning to-day to aggregate meetings of the fairners at…

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Convicted on Negligent Driving Charge Sheep Killed In Crash

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 22 April 1955 · page 9

At the Police Court on Wednesday, Ernest G. Ballantyne pleaded not guilty to a charge of negligent driving. The charge arose out of an accident on the New England Highway in…

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Losses by Hunter Valley Farmers Assistance Needed In Restoration Work

Maitland Mercury · Friday 22 April 1955 · page 2

A representative of a meeting of the Milk Zone Dairy Formers’ Advisory Council in Singleton described iron and steel producers of the country as “the Judas of our economy”…

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Owner Farmers’ General Losses Extension Of Relief Fund To Meet Cases

Maitland Mercury · Friday 22 April 1955 · page 2

Owner-farmers will be included under an immediate extension of the Maitland District Flood Relief Committee’s operations to cover general losses suffered by formers,…

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Hopes for Electricity on Farms in West

Maitland Mercury · Friday 22 April 1955 · page 1

SYDNEY: The State Electricity Authority hoped It would succeed in taking electricity to 90 per cent of farms outside…

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Wool and the United States

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 26 April 1955 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— One reason for the relative weakness in the finer…

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Dependence on Wool Australian Economy

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 26 April 1955 · page 3

A fall in the price of wool would have an immediate effect on employment in Australia, on the…

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To Buy Stud Cattle in U.K. and U.S.A.

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 26 April 1955 · page 2

Australia's most widely known stud beef cattleman, Mr A. J. Tanner, will set out in early May on a six months…

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