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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1944

535 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 27

Special Permits For Butter

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 June 1944 · page 2

The Deputy Director of Rationing for NSW (Mr. W. B. Hudson) announced today that all holders of special permits for butter, such…

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Butter Rationing Special Permits

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1944 · page 6

The Deputy Director of Rationing (Mr. W. B. Hudson) announced that holders of special permits, such as Industrial users, catering establishments,…

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Invasion Important for Wool Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 June 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The invasion of Northern France has great significance for the Australian wool trade, according to Winchcombe,…

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Basic Wheat Prices May Soon Be Fixed

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 14 June 1944 · page 1

NEW YORK. Tuesday. — The "Journal of Commerce" says that, with a view to stabilising the postwar wheat market, the…

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More Soldiers for Dairy Farms

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 June 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Early effect will be given to a Federal Cabinet decision to review applications rejected by the Army under the…

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Butter Cut May End in July

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 15 June 1944 · page 3

CANBERRA.—Progress reports indicate that butter production the end of July to enable a res-will be sufficiently improved at…

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Releasing Soldiers for Dairying

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 June 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Confusion among dairy farmers is believed to be largely responsible for a decline in the number of applications for…

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Dingoes Cause Heavy Sheep Losses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 June 1944 · page 3

BRISBANE, Friday.—The President of the Graziers' Association (Mr. P. B. Newcombe) said damage done by dingoes in the west and…

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Saved Pilot From Burning Plane Farmer Decorated by Lord Gowrie

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 June 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY. Friday.—Mr. O. C. J. McCocker, 65, a Tenterfield farmer, was the only civilian among more than 70 servicemen invested with…

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More Super Likely for Dairying

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 June 1944 · page 3

CANBERRA, Sunday,—More liberal supplies of superphosphate are likely to be allocated to the dairying industry in the next few months…

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10,000 Farm Tractors to Be Imported

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 June 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Ten thousand farm tractors are to be imported from America and Britain, the Minister for Commerce and…

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£6,000,000 for Tractors Expand Dairying

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 June 1944 · page 3

CANBERRA, Monday.—Ten thousand tractors worth approximately £6,000,000 would be imported from Britain and under lend-lease from the…

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10,000 Tractors To Be Pooled For Communal Farming

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 June 1944 · page 3

CANBERRA.—The 10,000 farming tractors, worth £6,000,000, to be imported into Australia immediately will be placed in pools…

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Butter for Britain Below Quota

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1944 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—For four year Australian had shipped to the United Kingdom less butter and cheese than she had been asked for,…

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Houses Made of Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1944 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A Sydney inventor, Mr. L. Smith, plans houses made of wool. He is submitting samples of wool composition board…

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BUTTER Rationing Has Saved 22,500,000lb

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 22 June 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE.—Without rationing 22,500.000lb more butter would have been consumed in this country…

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Farm Machines to Cost £10,000,000

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—More than £10,000,000 worth of machinery will be made available to Australian food producers under the…

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Higher Prices Sought for Butter, Cheese

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 June 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Recent zoning and fixation of milk prices provided a lever which might be used to secure increases in prices for…

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China Needs Huge Wheat Supply

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 June 1944 · page 3

CHUNGKING, Thursday. — China will need 150,000,000 bushels of imported wheat in the first year after the war, the…

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Wool Will Be Moth and Shrink Proof

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 June 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Chairman of the Australian Wool Board (Mr. D. T. Boyd) said mothproof and shrinkproof wool would be…

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