Dairying Industry
Sir,—For weeks the Milk Board has listened to evidence from all quarters suggesting that the entire industry is a losing proposition, yet…
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Farming & the land, 1943
439 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 22
Paratrooper Plans a Chicken Farm
NEW GUINEA, Tuesday.—The second American paratrooper to jump in the descent on important strategical country in the Markham…
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A small supply of cattle was forward at the Abattoir saleyards, principally comprising cows with only a few consignments of bullocks and fewer vealers…
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MELBOURNE.—Several well-known Melbourne jockeys have developed the farm complex. N. Creighton, who recently…
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Until new season potatoes are ready in November, only meagre supplies can be expected for civilians in any part of the…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—The State Superintendent of the Australian Wheat Board (Colonel G. A. H. Holbrow) announced that the closing…
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SYDNEY.—"Dairy farmers in my district could not have carried on in the past three years without child labor," said Mervin Walker,…
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WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—A bitter struggle over the proposal to draft American farmers into the fighting forces is expected in…
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MELBOURNE.—Poultry farms of the four Carter brothers at Werribee, largest family egg producing concern in the world are…
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CANBERRA.—About 15,000 men have already been temporarily released from the army to meet seasonal rural demands…
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SYDNEY.—The Commonwealth has just completed the sale of 250,000 tons of grain wheat, the Minister…
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The Manager of Raymond Terrace Cooperative Dairy Produce Co. Ltd. (Mr. J. Scarr) has appealed to farmers to attend the demonstration of…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—According to the Government Entomologist (Mr. McCarthy) hordes of black beetles, which are reported to be…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—When the Public Service Board to-day began the inquiry ordered by the State Government into allegations…
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MELBOURNE.—Not rationing but the institution's dietary scale was the reason why inmates of the Lidcombe State Hospital and…
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LONDON. Tuesday. — In the House of Lords yesterday Lord Selborne (Minister of Economic Warfare) said 555.646 tons of…
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Objection to the turn the Newcastle milk prices inquiry was taking was raised to-day by the general manager of Dairy Farmers' Milk Co., Ltd. (Mr. L. Place). The Milk Board is hearing an…
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CANBERRA.—Already 50,000 tons of wheat had been sent to India to give relief to the starving people there, declare the Deputy Prime…
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Development of the dairying industry was urgently needed, declared the Premier of NSW (Mr. McKell) when he launched a form mechanisation scheme at Hinton to-day. The Hunter River district, he added, was in a…
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CANBERRA.—Arrangements under which extra butter and a special allowance of cream will be made to invalids were announced…
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