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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1941

388 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 20

"Dairymen Leave Their Farms"

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 7 November 1941 · page 3

SYDNEY: Two hundred dairymen who were supplying milk to Sydney have left their farms in the past two years and an equal number are on…

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Wool Stores

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 November 1941 · page 7

Four hundred piles have been drive into the site for the foundations of the wool store in Wickham. A start has also been made with the posts and girders to the first…

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Wool Appraisements

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 November 1941 · page 7

Nenco reported that appraisement No. 34, consisting of 1936 bales, was completed in Newcastle yesterday. The wool was drawn principally from the Tablelands, slopes, and…

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From Dairy Farm to Boxing Ring

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 November 1941 · page 10

Jimmy Jones, who meets Len Kimber in one of the two 12-round boxing bouts to-night at Greater Newcastle Stadium, is a dairy farmer. He is not like Tom Land,…

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A.l.p. Request for Loading Bagged Wheat

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 10 November 1941 · page 4

"There is no chance of getting much wheat loaded here until facilities are provided at the silos for the loading of bagged wheat." said Mr. L…

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Give Farmer His Due

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 November 1941 · page 5

Sir,—The primary producer, owing to the continued dry weather, is being subjected to hard and unsatisfactory conditions of living. He is the only producer of…

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Increase for Dairymen Under Review

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 November 1941 · page 5

The Secretary of the Federated Milk Producers (Mr. J. McKeachie) has been advised by the Acting secretary of the Prices Commissioner that the federation's request…

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Stop Press Newcastle Races Newcastle Handicap First Movement Rely Lucky Son Wool Storemen Strike

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 11 November 1941 · page 1

Sydney.—About 2000 storemen and packers at Sydney wool, skin and hide stores will hold a stopwork meeting to-morrow to consider future…

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Poultry Farmers Destroy Fowls

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 11 November 1941 · page 6

BATEMANS BAY: Regulations by the State Err Marketing Board to bring country producers within the State-wide stabilisation scheme have…

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Storemen Packers in Wool Trade Idle in Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 12 November 1941 · page 3

SYDNEY: Three thousand storemen and packers in the wool hide and skin industry were idle to-day for a stop-work meeting…

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Butter Plan Expected

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 November 1941 · page 13

CANBERRA, Thursday.—A plan for the handling of second-grade butter, which it was now impossible to export, would be announced shortly, the…

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Wheat for Turkey

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 November 1941 · page 3

ANKARA, Nov. 16.—Lord Carlisle has returned from Cairo, where he explained the Turkish requirements to the Middle East Supply Conference. He says that…

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Export Ban on Second-grade Butter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 November 1941 · page 3

CANBERRA, Sunday.—The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) said that the Commonwealth Government had under consideration action which would be taken…

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Butter and Bacon Workers' Award

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 18 November 1941 · page 4

Officials of the State branch of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union conferred in Sydney yesterday with master butchers' representatives…

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Refused Rise in Butter, Cheese Prices Chief Criticised

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 November 1941 · page 6

BRISBANE. Tuesday.—The refusal of the Prices Commissioner to grant an increase of 1d per 1b in the cost of butter and a ½d in the cost of cheese was…

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Better to Cackle Than Crow—On a Poultry Farm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 November 1941 · page 10

THE POULTRY FARMER is a realist, a rigid economist, a hard-hearted foster parent. The charm of a hen fussing over her…

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Long Term Finance for Farmers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 November 1941 · page 6

CANBERRA, Thursday.—Opening the conference of the Agricultural Council to-day the Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) said that the missing link in…

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Outlook Black as Pitch, Says Farmers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 November 1941 · page 5

SINGLETON, Monday.—Mr. B. S. Ball, a cell-known farmer, speaking at a meeting to reform a branch of the Junior Farmers' Club, declared that the farmer…

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"Farmerettes" Are Wanted in U.s.a

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 25 November 1941 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Monday (A.A.P.): Plans are being pushed ahead by the Office of Civilian Defence to organise a women's land army to…

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Milk and Butter Prices Lower Hunter Farmers Want Increase

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 November 1941 · page 5

Mr. R. L. Fitzgerald, M.L.A., supported a motion carried by the Lower Hunter and Gloucester Council of the Primary Producers' Union at Raymond Terrace…

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