Newcastle Help For Bob's Farm Evacuees
SOCIAL service work for evacuees at Bob's Farm has been one of the outstanding wartime achievements of Newcastle women's…
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Farming & the land, 1943
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Farmer Boy Is Top U.S. Air Ace
A farmer boy only two years ago. the top American air ace in the South-west Pacific has marked up 15…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Sugar, Tea, and Butter Coupons
MELBOURNE, Friday.—In addition to three extra coupons to provide for the six pounds allowance of sugar for jam, new coupons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Industries for Country More Wool Centres Advocated
ARMIDALE, Sunday.—Establishment of country industries was advocated by Mr. H. W. Oxford, endorsed Labour candidate for New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aged People Left to Work Farms
SYDNEY. — A 70-years-old couple were left to shear 900 sheep and a grazier of 75 had to look after a 4000-acre property with 2000 sheep. These Instances of the harsh…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers Sick of Political Interference
SYDNEY.—At the Farmers and Settlers' Association Conference to-day the President (Mr. T. E. Kendall) said problems of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Growers Seek 5s 2d for Wheat
SYDNEY.—The Farmers and Settlers Conference to-day decided by 59 votes to 44, to ask 5s 2d for the first of 3000 bushels wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers Approve National Union Seek Minimum Prices
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The formation of a National Farmers' Union was approved to-day by the conference of the Farmers and Settlers'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers To Ask 5/2 Bushel For Wheat
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Farmers' and Settlers' Conference decided to-day to ask the Federal Government to pay wheatgrowers 5/2…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Special Inquiry Into Wheat
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A special committee is to inquire into the industry. The wheat growers' organisation in each State will be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.s. Limits Use of Wool
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—The War Production Board announced that it has prohibited the "frivolous use" of wool. It explained that apparel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Will Astound Us" Mechanical Farming At Maitland
"I think that what we will see with mechanical farming in the district in the next three or four months will astound us," said Ald. E. C…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pig Order Hits Farmers
SINGLETON, Thursday.—District farmers protest against the order prohibiting the slaughter of pigs under 100lb dressed weight. They…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Possible Meat Shortage Meat Commissioner Tells Farmers
SYDNEY, Thursday—Australia was faced with a possible shortage of a quarter of a million tons of meat in the next 12 months, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers Want Ban on Communists
SYDNEY, Friday.—A motion pledging loyalty to the United Country Party was unanimously adopted to-day by the Farmers and Settlers'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Airmen Cut Crops To Make Drome
LONDON. Friday.—When the Allies invaded Sicily, air-fields from which fighters could operate were an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Butter From Other States
"There is an extreme shortage butter. To maintain supplies, we are forced to buy large quantities from other States."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Complaints of Rancid Butter
SYDNEY, Monday.—Not a single box of butter which had been placed in the Newcastle cool stores for shipment overseas had been released for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District Has to Import Butter
For the next month or six weeks this district would have to depend largely on butter from other States, the general manager of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep Numbers Hard to Maintain
SYDNEY, Monday.—Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., in a report declared that it was doubtful if Australia would maintain her sheep numbers on the record…
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