Price Rise for N.z. Dairymen
AUCKLAND, Wednesday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) announced that a settlement had been reached with the dairy industry…
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Farming & the land, 1944
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Stocks Of Foreign Wool Decrease
NEW YORK. Thursday, Auction sales are reducing stocks of foreign wool at a sufficiently satisfactory rate to obviate the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Time to Plant Vine Crops
Squash, marrow, pumpkin, and cucumber crops generally take a fair amount of room. The vine crop family is divided into two groups…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairy Farms Worked By Sweated Labor
LISMORE.—Dairy farms were being worked by the sweated labor of farmers' wives and school children, Mr. R. T…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Says Farms Worked by Sweated Labour
LISMORE, Sunday.—Dairy farmers could not pay the basic wage to labourers, and farms were being worked by sweated labour, farmers'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Harvest Down 100,000,000 Bushels
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Australian Wheat Board estimates that the harvest this season will be 66,000,000 bushels, compared with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Record Dried Vine Fruit Crop
CANBERRA. — An all-time record dried vine fruits production (102,690 tons) for all Australia during 1943-44 was announced…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Slight Increase for Dairymen
CANBERRA. — Dairymen are to receive improved returns under the dairying subsidy scheme. It is understood that a small rise…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Collective Farming Would Hit Digger"
CANBERRA, Thursday.—"I hope the Government does not intend to indulge in any fanciful sociological ideas as regards soldiers' land…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sos to Women to Save Tomato Crops
SYDNEY. — An urgent appeal for women to assist in saving crops of tomatoes, peas and beans destined for military civilian and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →World's Huge Wool Surplus
MELBOURNE: At the close of the 1944-45 wool season there will be a world carry-over of 10,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tuckshop Wants More Butter
Increasing numbers of students attending the school, with the 25 per cent. cut in the butter ration, created a problem for the tuckshop at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairymen Reject Milk Prices
SINGLETON, Tuesday.—Singleton and district men to-day decided by a large majority not to accept milk prices announced following…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Would Consider More Butter for Schools
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Any application from headmasters for an increased butter ration for school tuck-shops would be sympathetically…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lend-lease Wool Plan for the East
CANBERRA. — The development of a peace-time lend-lease scheme to send Australian-made spinning and weaving machinery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Butter for Entertainments
"I can only suggest that sandwiches be deleted from your refreshments or that members of your association contribute butter…
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In a letter to the Secretary of Newcastle District Council of Parents and Citizens' Associations (Mrs. J. E. Moran) the Deputy Director…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Back to Gosford, But Not to Farm Home
GOSFORD, Thursday.—When 18 of the boys at the Gosford Farm Home who escaped in the past week were being returned to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Turn Germany Into Small Farms
NEW YORK, Sept. 24. A.A.P.—President Roosevelt's Cabinet committee on the peace policy to be adopted towards Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australia's Wheat Outlook Grim
CANBERRA.—Australia faces the grimest wheat prospect for many years, Commonwealth officials said today…
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