£67,000 Paid for Stud Sheep
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—For the first three days of the Sydney stud sheep sales, the total paid amounted to £67,000…
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Farming & the land, 1944
535 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 27
Eight Pits Idle Butter Ration Protest By Miners Spreads
Five mines were today involved in stoppages caused by protests by miners against the foreshadowed further cut…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Review at End of Eight Weeks Mr. Forde on Butter
CANBERRA, Wednesday.— The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) said to-night that Full Cabinet had approved…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Attained New Heights of Absurdity" Mr. Davie Criticises Strikes Over Butter Ration
Because coal stocks had reached a record low level, reasons for stoppages at Pelaw Main and Richmond Main collieries, where miners…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Releases for Dairying
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) announced that full Cabinet had endorsed decision on manpower…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Protest Against Butter Rationing
Because members considered that a further rationing of butter was unnecessary and against the interests and health of men…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →What People Think Butter Rationing
When we were cut down to eight ounces of butter a week we tried to do our best, but half a pound is not sufficient when one has to cut six lunches…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Lard to Replace Butter
CANBERRA. - Federal officials expect that increasing production of pig meats will enable more lard to be released to supply some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five Mines Idle Over Butter Ration
Stoppages at five Northern mines yesterday over butter rationing caused a loss of 5200 tons of coal. Two of the mines…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cut in Butter Not Safe B.M.A. Warns Food Authorities
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Alarm at the continued drift in the nutritional requirements of the civilian. population was experienced by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A.L.P. Protest on Butter Cut "Hard for Workers to Keep Going"
Adamstown branch of the A.L.P. will ask Federal members of Parliament to protest against any proposal for reduce the butter ration…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Prices May Be Revised
OTTAWA June 2. A.A.P.—The Canadian Press Agency learns that a revision of the clause of the international wheat agreement of 1942…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Children Must Make Up for Butter Cut
THE MILK shortage and the proposed decrease of 2oz. in the butter ration are bringing children within the rickets danger gone." said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Ration "Bma Statement Puts Criticism in New Light"
The concern of the Federal Council of the British Medical Association in Australia at the two-ounce cut in the butter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Guns, Men for Butter "Worth a Bit of Hardship"
"If we are able to return butter for guns and the men and material we have received from America and British, is it not worth our…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Restore Butter Ration As Soon As Possible Mr. Forde Tells Miners' Leader
The Federal Government would do everything it could to restore the butter ration to ½lb a week as soon as possible, the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) told the miners' Northern President (Mr. W. Crook) yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Get on with Work, Says Mr. Forde "Butter Cut Inconvenience, Not Privation"
CANBERRA, Friday.—Declaring that Australians were well fed and must get on with their work, the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) called on Australians to accept the new butter cut, which was an inconvenience rather than a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Men Not Anxious to Return to Dairying
SINGLETON, Friday.—Mr. J. B. Timbs, Manager of the Bowtho[?] Butter Factory and a member of many Commonwealth and State…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farmers Complain Of Lack Of Equipment
Resuling from complaints made by members of the Hunter District Fruit and Vegetable Growers' Association regarding…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bma Reply to Forde on Butter
SYDNEY,—No one realises better than the medical profession the importance of good food from the morale…
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