Milk Strike Decision By Dairymen: Date Not Yet Fixed
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 October 1947 · page 2
SYDNEY: A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council today decided unanimously that dairymen would withhold all milk supplies to force the State Government to implement the Milk Board's recommendation for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Dairymen May Stop Supplies
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 October 1947 · page 8
Unless the State Government implements the Milk Board's interim price members of the Maitland branch of the Milk Zone Dairymen's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →May Have To Store Surplus Wheat
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 October 1947 · page 4
SYDNEY, Friday.—If the 80 million bushel mark is exceeded in the expected bumper wheat crop in New South Wales, wheat growers will have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Sack Supplies Should Be Adequate
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 October 1947 · page 6
CANBERRA, Friday.—Supplies of wheat sacks on order in India would adequately meet the requirements of Australia's wheat crop, the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →City Milk Supply Off From Thursday Dairymen Act To Force Cabinet's Hand
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 October 1947 · page 1
Unless the price of milk is increased by the State Cabinet on Tuesday, Newcastle and Sydney consumers will have their milk supplies cut off from Thursday. Producers will not deliver supplies to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Junior Farmers' Show at Wallsend
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 October 1947 · page 6
Wallsend Junior Farmers' Club has completed the schedule and allotted prizemoney for the show at Plattsburg School on November 8…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Carters Won't Strike with Dairymen
The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 October 1947 · page 2
SYDNEY.—Members of the Milk and Ice Carters' Union would not strike in sympathy if dairymen withhold milk supplies next week, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ask Outside Dairymen To Cut Off Milk
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 October 1947 · page 3
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Milk Zone Dairymen's Council will appeal to dairymen adjacent to the milk zone in New South Wales to join its members if milk supplies to Sydney, Newcastle and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Claims Wheat Harvest "Chaotic"
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 October 1947 · page 6
PARKES: The wheat crop in N.S.W. will probably yield one hundred million bushels and losses will be colossal unless the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Ready To Handle Wheat Harvest"
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 October 1947 · page 3
SYDNEY, Monday.—All arrangements were completed for the handling of a record wheat harvest, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Day On The Farm
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 October 1947 · page 6
WHEN I arrived at my uncle's dairy farm about 9.30 a.m., the cattle were being fed. Each animal had its own bundle of hay. After lunch my…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Raise Prices Of Dairy Products
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 October 1947 · page 3
CANBERRA, Monday.—There will be an increase in the retail prices of butter, cheese and processed milk products as a result of increased returns to the farmers, announced to-day by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Dairymen To Discuss Increase
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 October 1947 · page 4
A special meeting of the Newcastle and Suburban Raw Milk Vendors' Association has been called for tomorrow night at Waratah Town Hall to determine the attitude of Newcastle's dairymen and to discuss promised price increases…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Expects Wheat Crop Be 100M. Bushels
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 October 1947 · page 3
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The wheat crop would probably be about 100 million bushels, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) said to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter May Be 2d DEARER
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 October 1947 · page 1
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The retail price of butter is expected in some quarters to be increased by 2d or 2½d a lb as a result of the expert…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Good Rain for Wheat Areas
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 15 October 1947 · page 3
SYDNEY.—Rain, up to two inches in places, has fallen throughout the State in the past 24 hours. Mr. Bartlett wheat expert of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.K. Ending Wool Price Control "Herald" Service and A.A.P.
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 October 1947 · page 1
LONDON, October 14.—Removal of the maximum prices on tops, noils, and wool wastes, announced by the Board of Trade last night, will end price…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Racket Alleged In Second-Hand Wheat Sack Sale
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 October 1947 · page 5
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The growers' representative on the Australian Wheat Board (Mr. G. A. Gibbons, of Parkers) said he had been told that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →70½d Reached At Wool Sales In Newcastle
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 October 1947 · page 8
A bale of 74-80's spinners super fleece warp sold for 70½d a lb. in the Starlots section at Newcastle wool exchange yesterday. The bale came…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wheatgrowers Fear Chaos Over Crops
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 October 1947 · page 2
SYDNEY: Wheatgrowers are rapidly working into a frenzy over the chaotic arrangements for handling this year's bumpes wheat crop. They are still faced with an acute…
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