£32,000,000 for Farmers
CANBERRA, Thursday.—Subsidy paid by the Commonwealth to primary producers for the four years 1939-44 was £32,208,014, the Minister…
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Farming & the land, 1944
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World's Biggest Poultry Farm to Cut Run
MELBOURNE, Friday. — Carter Bros., of Werribee, owners of the world's largest poultry farm, intend to reduce their run by 60 per cent…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Withdrawal of the Government subsidy on rayon was urged by Mr. Adermann, M.H.R., who said it was stupid and should…
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SYDNEY.—Recent dismissal of a returned soldier by a Tweed River farmer, who replaced him with three prisoners of war, has…
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Members of the Cook's Hill Parents and Citizens' Association last night expressed concern at the decision of the Rationing…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The leader of the British Food Mission (Mr. Amery) told the Legacy Club that the maintenance of Britain's…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday. — America's liquor drought is broken but a return to butterless lunches in public eating places is suggested. Assuring good supplies of whisky and num, the liquor…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday,—The Australian Dairy Produce Board decided to grant £2000 a year for three years. for scientific research in the cattle…
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GUNNEDAH, Wednesday.—An influx of graziers and other men on the land into the wheat industry will not be permitted by the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Secretary of the Milk and Ice Carters' Union (Mr. A. Thompson) has called a stop-work meeting of dairying…
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COWRA.—So many dairies have closed down in the Forbes-Cowra area that milk is being brought from the city…
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CANBERRA, Sunday—Unemployed or surplus labour in country munition factories should have been diverted to primary production long ago, said…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Butter was not available to restore the weekly butter ration from 6oz to 8oz, said a Food Control spokesman…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sale of Sheep at Maitland Charges Dismissed
Two charges arising out of the sale of sheep at Maitland Saleyards on April 27 were dismissed by Mr. A. E. Hodgson, P.M., at West Maitland…
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SINGLETON, Tuesday.—Disregarding advice by the producers' representative on the Milk Board (Mr. McKeachie), Singleton branch of the…
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An issue of butter in excess of the normal ration had been refused to a woman, a chronic invalid, who had produced a doctor's…
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SYTDNEY, Thursday.—State Council of the Returned Soldiers' League decided to ask the State Government to search for suitable land for…
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MELBOURNE.—Italian officers, prisoners-of-war, are to be employed in Victoria soon in the Mildura and Beaufort districts…
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LONDON.—Czechoslovak channels in London have reported that important crops of rve and wheat from Bohemia and Moravia will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Britain Pays N.z. More for Butter
SYDNEY, Friday.—The New Zealand Government has accepted a four-year contract with the British Government to supply increased…
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