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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1943

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Lismore C.W.A. £100 Raised for Sheep Skin Vest Appeal

Northern Star · Friday 12 February 1943 · page 4

The total amount raised in Lismore for the Sheep skin Vest Appeal was £91 14s 1d. Of this sum the Red Cress Society…

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Better Prices for Farm Products

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 12 February 1943 · page 1

The Senate this week carried on the voices' a motion by Senator Latham, C.P., W.A., recommending that the Government…

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Kyogle P.P.U. Protest On Inadequate Subsidy For Dairymen

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 12 February 1943 · page 1

That an emphatic protest be lodged against the total in adequacy of the dairy subsidy in assisting to restore the industry to a condition of stability, and that immediate steps be taken to demand a price for butter commensurate with the…

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Japanese Dairy Technique

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 12 February 1943 · page 7

Recent Tokio broadcasts suggest that the Japanese military administration in the Netherlands East Indies has now…

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S. Coast Criticism of Dairy Subsidy

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 12 February 1943 · page 2

Bitter comments were made regarding the Federal Government's subsidy to the dairy industry at a meeting at Bega of representatives…

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Farm Produce

Northern Star · Friday 12 February 1943 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The market for bran and pollard was unchanged at £6 per ton…

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"Calf Auctions Not in Farmers' Interests"

Northern Star · Friday 12 February 1943 · page 3

A claim that the auctioning of calves, which was strongly opposed by branch members, was in the interests of the meat companies and…

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Dairy Produce

Northern Star · Friday 12 February 1943 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thursday.—There was no change in rates for dairy produce to-day. Marketing Bureau's Quotations: Butter, 169s 4d; cheese,…

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Govt. Requested to Implement Dairy Committee Findings

Northern Star · Friday 12 February 1943 · page 4

CANBERRA, Thursday.—The only result so far of the inquiry by the expert committee into the dairying iIndustry was the payment of £2…

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Kyogle Protest Against Butter Subsidy

Northern Star · Saturday 13 February 1943 · page 4

KYOGLE, Friday.—A special meeting of the Kyogle branch of the Primary Producers' Union to-day decided to lodge an emphatic protest against the "total inadequacy" of the dairy subsidy, and that…

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Norco Butter Production 1918 Tons in Jan

Tweed Daily · Saturday 13 February 1943 · page 2

Butter production at Norco factories last month was more than double that of January, 1942, and the price per lb also…

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Tyalgum Junior Farmers' Club

Tweed Daily · Saturday 13 February 1943 · page 2

The calf-rearing competition commenced by Tyalgum Junior Farmers' Club last December is now in full swing. Eleven…

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Survey of Tweed Potato Crops

Tweed Daily · Saturday 13 February 1943 · page 2

One of the problems of the official agents of the Potato Board on the Tweed is to maintain adequate supplies of stocks for local…

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Political Trickery To Rob Farmers

Northern Star · Saturday 13 February 1943 · page 5

CANBERRA, Friday.—"Political shysters and tricksters in the Curtin Government have deprived the nation's dairymen of many hundreds of thousands of pounds," declared Mr. J. Abbott (U.C.P., N.S.W.)…

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Local and General. Butter Record

Tweed Daily · Monday 15 February 1943 · page 2

The Gympie butter factory made [?] 520 tons of butter in January, [?] Australian record for a single [?]tory for one month…

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Dairy Committee's Report Improved Returns The Key to Farmers' Problems

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 16 February 1943 · page 2

The interim and principal reports of the special Dairy Industry Committee, which were tabled in the House of Representatives recently, placed the position of the dairy industry and the causes of its difficulties clearly, and on the…

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Farm Produce

Northern Star · Tuesday 16 February 1943 · page 6

SYDNEY, Monday.—The followiing wholesale prices for potatoes were fixed to-day: Tasmanian £13 ex-wharf: choice local…

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Waitresses Continue Strike at Farmers

Northern Star · Tuesday 16 February 1943 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—Steps for holding a mass meeting of all employees of Farmer and Co. Ltd. was decided upon at a mass meeting…

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To The Editor (Writers cf Letters to the Editor are requested to limit their contributions to approximately 350 words). Petrol and Butter

Northern Star · Wednesday 17 February 1943 · page 2

Sir.—I. like another writer, would like to know why so much petrol and/ or rubber is wasted on lorries carrying parties fishing or visiting picture…

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Commercial Dairy Produce

Northern Star · Wednesday 17 February 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—There was no change in rates for dairy produce to-day. Marketing Bureau's quotations: Butter, 169s 4d; cheese,…

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