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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1944

535 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 27

Lucky If Total Is Bigger P.D.S. Manager on Butter Subsidy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The dairying industry will be lucky if the new subsidy yields as much in the aggregate as was paid last year," said the…

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May Withhold Milk Dairymen's Threat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 2

Unless dairymen at a meeting in Sydney to-day received something definite from the Federal Government about the proposed subsidy of…

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Italian Farmers Removing Lava

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 4

Farmers in a village close to Mt. Vesuvius removing the lapillo (lava in the form of small stones) that fell on the soil during the volcano's worst eruption in more than 70 years…

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Men Wanted for Sugar Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday—About 3350 men, 750 more than last year, would be required to handle the 1944 New South Wales sugar cane crop in the…

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Factory Pay Rule For Farmers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1944 · page 4

ALBURY, Friday.–Progressive growth of rural policies must be based on the same consideration that rules payment for work done in city…

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No Official Offer to Dairymen

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 13 May 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY.—No official offer had yet been made to dairymen in connection with the 3[?]d a gallon extra recommended by Professor…

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Dairymen Threat of Strike Still on

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 15 May 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY. — Members of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council to-day reaffirmed their decision to cease milk…

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Liver, Wheat, Doctor's Cure for Delinquency

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1944 · page 2

BRISBANE, Monday.—An amazing series of cures of subnormal delinquents by feeding them on liver, often raw, and wheat were described…

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Farm Machinery Group Code

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Food Control to-day explained the code for operating group machinery schemes in Victoria by State and…

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3½d Subsidy or Nothing Dairymen Firm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1944 · page 2

Members of the Mike zone Dairymen's Council are determined to withhold milk from delivery in Sydney and Newcastle on Saturday if…

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Milk Subsidy Dairymen Will Not Take Less

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 May 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Dairyfarmers expect that the Federal Government will try to compromise with them by offering less than the…

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Wheat-liver Diet for Abnormals

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 3

BRISBANE.—Amazing results in India and Australia, in curing abnormal adults and children by means of a wheat-raw liver diet…

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Fourth Year's Decline in Vic. Butter Output

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE.—It was a matter of crave concern that lowered production and decreased ex-ports of butter had been caused…

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Butter to Britain Down 45,000 Tons

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday,—More butter fat would be produced if a flat rate subsidy on production were paid, instead of the present system which…

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Send No Milk Maitland Dairymen's Decision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 2

About 120 dairymen who met at West Maitland last night decided that no milk be supplied to the Milk Board after to-morrow until the…

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Dairymen's Ultimatum Milk Supplies for Hospitals Only After Next Friday Carters' Union Move For Urgent Federal Action

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 1

Special arrangements will be made to supply hospitals and similar institutions, but milk supplies will be withdrawn from all other consumers in the Newcastle and Sydney milk zones after Friday morning's deliveries unless the…

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Milk Dispute (Continued from page 1) Prof. Copland Stubborn Say Dairymen

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY. — Members of the executive of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council said this afternoon that, but for the…

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Dispute at Wool Store

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 May 1944 · page 2

Since Monday 22 members of the Storemen and Packers’ Union have been idle at a Newcastle' wool store over a dispute concerning a member…

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No Milk Till Subsidy Paid Newcastle Dairymen Determined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 May 1944 · page 2

Dairymen in Newcastle district yesterday affirmed the decision of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council, that no milk would be delivered in…

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Increase Dairying Mechanisation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 May 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Increased mechanisation of the dairying industry and food production were discussed by the Federal…

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