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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1944

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Monthly Butter Pays. Factories Say No Other System Practicable

Tweed Daily · Saturday 1 January 1944 · page 2

A resolution requesting Norco Co-operative Limited and Foley Bros. Pty. Ltd to pay 16 per lb. monthly to…

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No Crop Losses Due to Manpower

Northern Star · Saturday 1 January 1944 · page 5

SYDNEY. Thursday.—The main difficulty in providing manpower for rural industry was the lack of accommodation for seasonal…

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Farm Mechanisation Mr. Holmes Says Kyogle Neglected

Northern Star · Saturday 1 January 1944 · page 4

KYOGLE Frida.—[?] the State Government's food production scheme at the monthly meeting of the Kyogle branch of the…

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Scully Defends Subsidy Butter Price

Northern Star · Monday 3 January 1944 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Recent statements on the prices realised for butter by dairy farmers betrayed an ignorance of the normal factory practice in making payment said the Minister for Commerce…

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Dairymen Again Seek Additional Clothing Coupons

Tweed Daily · Monday 3 January 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: Dairymen have appealed for re-consideration of the position not to allow extra clothing coupons for dairymen, the…

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Flood Waters Damage Farms On Clarence

Tweed Daily · Monday 3 January 1944 · page 2

GRAFTON, Sunday: Not one farm in the Coaldale district has escaped damage of some description as a result of a heavy storm…

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The Northern Star Published Daily at Lismore Tuesday, January 4, 1944. Butter On Time Payment

Northern Star · Tuesday 4 January 1944 · page 4

MR. SOULLY'S statement on the butter price is at least partially reassuring. The mere fact of his reiterating previous…

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Farm Labor and Bureaucracy (To the Editor)

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 4 January 1944 · page 4

Sir: At [?] meeting of Central Executive of the PPU a motion was carried that recruits for the Services be not accepted from…

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Conditions in Dairying Industry

Northern Star · Tuesday 4 January 1944 · page 5

Discontent is prevalent in sections of the dairying industry in Tamworth district. An authority on the industry…

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Men Needed to Move Cattle and Sheep

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 5 January 1944 · page 2

BRISBANE, Tuesday: A manpower shortage has held up the transfer in many pastoral districts of thousands of head of cattle and…

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Price Rise for Wheat Growers Harvest Award Sequel

Northern Star · Wednesday 5 January 1944 · page 4

PERTH. Tuesday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) to-day announced an additional payment of 1 1/3d a bushel to wheat growers…

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To The Editor Letters to the Editor Must be Limited to Approximately 350 words the Butter Pay

Northern Star · Wednesday 5 January 1944 · page 3

Sir,-Could any person, or our butter factory managers, explain why the Queensland butter pays are 2½d lb. more than N.S.W.? I…

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"Acting Under Instructions" to Farmers' Good (To the Editor)

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 5 January 1944 · page 4

Sir,—On the authority of a somewhat out-of-date American publication. "Just a Cocky" concludes in your issue of 311243 that "the…

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Reduced Butter Ration For N.Z. Servicemen

Northern Star · Thursday 6 January 1944 · page 5

AUCKLAND, Wednesday—The butter ration for members of the services in New Zealand has been fixed at 8 ounces weekly from the…

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Letters to the Editor: Letters to the Editor Must be Limited to Approximately 350 words the Butter Pay

Northern Star · Thursday 6 January 1944 · page 3

Sir,—What is this practical joke being played on the dairy farmers, by which there has been a deficiency of 15d per lb. in the butter…

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Serious Fall In Butter Production

Tweed Daily · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2

CANBERRA, Thursday: A serious decline in the production of butter in Australia for the five months from July to November…

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Canberra Opinion Farmers Slow To Take Sons From Factories

Tweed Daily · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2

CANBERRA, Thursday: It is firmly believed in Federal political circles that many farmers have not been…

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Record Rice Crop in India

Northern Star · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday (AAP).— According to the first all-in rice forecast, India's total rice crop this year is expected to be a record…

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Dairying Plight Desperate

Northern Star · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A severe shortage of milk is predicted in New South Wales this winter. The Commonwealth butter…

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Higher Queensland Butter Pays

Northern Star · Saturday 8 January 1944 · page 4

CASINO, Friday. — "Reference has been made to the fact that some Queensland factories' recent monthly pay rates have exceeded…

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