Price of Butter Unchanged
MELBOURNE, Friday. — State Prices Ministers to-day unanimously rejected the Joint Dairy Advisory Committee's recommendation for…
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Farming & the land, 1949
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More Butter Asked For Pensioners
The Lord Mayor of Newcastle (Ald. Quinlan) said yesterday that he would ask the rationing authorities to increase the butter ration…
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The Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) intends to make representations to the N.S.W. Rationing Commission and the Federal…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Health authorities disclosed to-day that the causes of the scarlet fever epidemic at the township of St. Arnaud in…
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PARIS, August 14. A.A.P.—When farm labourers near Montdemarson, in South-west Pacific, started a fire to get their…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Wheat sowings in New South Wales this season cover about 5 million acres, compared with about 4,570,000…
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The biggest shipment of wool by rail since the ban was imposed on goods traffic was received in Newcastle yesterday…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—American purchases of Australian wool had declined by 60 per cent., Mr. Chifley said at the Premiers'…
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The issue of a further 200,000 shares of £1 each will be proposed at the annual meeting of the Hunter Valley Cooperative…
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PRAGUE, Wed. (AAP)—Slovak peasants have threatened to fire their crops if Communist…
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The Hunter Valley Cooperative Dairy Company Ltd. made a net profit of £59,505 in the 12 months ended June 30, according to the…
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Mr. A. B. Caldwell, owner of Perfect Melody, winner of the second division of the Maiden Handicap at Gosford yesterday, has bought 25 acres near the Dudley Bed Cross Home to start a stud farm…
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The first of the next season's wheat is not expected in Newcastle till early in November. Most of Newcastle's wheat comes…
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It is well known to gardeners that much better results are obtained if crops of different plant-groups follows one another—that is,…
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MOSCOW, Aug. 18. A.A.P.—Vassili Sergeyevich Tishkin, a 144-year-old collective farmer, and his 95-year-old wife…
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Thieves working at night were stealing electric motors from farms in the Dungog district, the District Agronomist (Mr. G. T. Dawson)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Brief Beginning Of Big "Wheat Lift" Shaft Sinking In Martin Place
Shafts will be sunk in Martin Place this year to connect with underground tunnels of the Eastern Suburbs railway, the Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) said today. The…
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SYDNEY.—Near drought conditions exist in central northern districts and rain is needed in most parts, a…
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Modern machinery in the Hunter Valley is reducing losses by floods and time taken to sow potatoes…
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Prospects looked bright for the spring and a good season is anticipated, the Hunter River District Dairy Officer (Mr. J. W. G. Smith) stated in his monthly report to the Department of Agriculture…
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