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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1947

864 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 31 of 44

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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"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)…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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