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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1935

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Dairymen Enabled to "Hang On" Review of Past Year Murwillumbah P.P.U. Annual Meeting

Tweed Daily · Monday 4 February 1935 · page 2

Conditions for dairymen in 1834 were a little more satisfactory than in the previous year, declared the Secretary of…

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Rain in All Dairying Districts New South Wales Production at High Level

Tweed Daily · Monday 4 February 1935 · page 5

Rain fell in all the dairying, districts of New South Wales during January, with violent storms on the Northern Tablelands. According…

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Farms Swept New Zealand Whirlwind

Tweed Daily · Monday 4 February 1935 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Sunday:--An agricultural district six miles from Cambridge was struck by a whirlwind accompanied by a thunderstorm on Saturday…

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Butter Costs

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 4

[?]sts of manufacture of both butter and cheese have steadily declined in New Zealand since 1925. In that year the costs of manufacture and…

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Butter for America

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 2

On the question of Australian butter shipments to the United States the view is taken in Melbourne that owing to the shorter supplies of…

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Bunyip Butter Next?

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 4

Somebody in England, complaining against the adoption of the kangaroo as a brand for Australian butter, suggests that possible purchasers…

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Assistance to Wheat Farmers Canberra

Northern Star · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 12

Early consideration of many recommendations of the Royal Wheat Commission's report, which has been presented to the Government by Sir…

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Wheat Production Declines MELBOURNE

Northern Star · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 11

Wheat production for 1934-35 is estimated at 30,000,000 bushels. This is a small harvest, due to unfavourable weather and pests…

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Drought-resisting Wheat Canadian Experiment

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 3

WINNIPEG, Canada.--"Very promising progress" in the development of a strain of high-quality wheat with drought-resisting properties was…

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Price of Butter Visit of Norco Directors

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 4

It is announced in our busines columns that a meeting of Norco suppliers will be held at the Memorial Institute on Wednesday next, 13th…

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Commission's Report Wheat Industry CANBERRA

Northern Star · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 7

Strong recommendations that any Commonwealth scheme for granting permanent annual financial assistance to the wheat…

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Wheat Commission's Report Constitutional Amendments Urged

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 5

CANBERRA, Monday:--Constitutional amendments to enable the Commonwealth to control intra-State movements, sales and marketing of wheat…

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Empire Butter Further Advances Highest for Twelve Months American Buying a "Bullish" Factor

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 3

(Norco Notes, issued 1235.) Dairy farmers of Australia should feel very gratified with cable quotations received from…

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Favors Federal Control of Dairy Industry Midginbil P.p.u. President Annual Meeting of Branch

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 6

A declaration that he was strongly in favor of Commonwealth control of the dairying industry, with the object of securing…

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"Defying the Law" Farmer Committed to Prison

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 8

James Patrick Hoban, a farmer in the Tamworth district, who appeared before Mr. Justice Lukin in the Federal Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday,…

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Dairyman's Costs Interesting Figures

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 8

An analysis was recently made in New Zealand of the cost of production per lb. of butter-fat from records taken from 197 dairy farms. These…

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"APATHETIC" Dairymen And P. P. U. Ewingsdale-myocum Branch Activities

Northern Star · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 13

That the apathy of members must have a discouraging effect on the few stalwart members who had kept active the work of the union in their area was stressed by the president (Mr. R. J. Lindsay) at the annual meeting of the…

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Helping Junior Farmers

Northern Star · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 11

Members of the adult committee of the Deep Creek-Shannon Brook Junior Farmers' Club have been busy ploughing and harrowing the…

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Boy's Death Fell Into Cattle Dip

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 6 February 1935 · page 5

BUNDABERG, Tuesday:--After lying at the bottom of a cattle dip containing a poisonous mixture, a 5-year-old boy recovered, but shortly…

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Butter Pay 9¼d Fixed for January

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 6 February 1935 · page 4

The North Coast Butter Factories' Association met yesterday and fixed the pay to suppliers for cream delivered…

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