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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1944

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Manpower for Dairy Work Only 69 Releases Approved

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 4

Although 200 applications for the release of manpower for work on dairy farms in the Richmond-Upper Clarence…

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Share Farmers P.P.U. Discusses Tenancy Clause in New Act

Northern Star · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 2

Notwithstanding any provision in a contract of tenancy, a notice to quit a holding shall be invalid, if it purports to terminate the…

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Butter Ration Cut Not Discussed Yet

Northern Star · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday.—Although some members of Parliament representing dairying districts in the House of Representatives consider that a…

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No Iron Posts for Farmers

Tweed Daily · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 2

Following on the decision of the military authorities to withdraw iron posts from certain coastal areas, the Department of Supply…

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Farm Mechanisation

Tweed Daily · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 4

LISMORE, Friday: As the agricultural machinery ordered by Norco Co-op Ltd under the State mechanisation scheme has now…

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Dairy Industry Advisory C'ttees

Tweed Daily · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 2

The latest bulletin from head office of the Primary Producers' Union states that, following on the appointment of a Dairy Produce…

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P.P.U. Active Dairying Manpower Problem

Tweed Daily · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 2

Every possible opportunity has been taken to emphasise the desperate manpower position which exists on so many…

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Committees To Control Farm Machinery

Northern Star · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 5

As the agricultural machinery ordered by Norco Co-op. Ltd. under the State Mechanisation Scheme has now arrived, it has been…

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Farmer Pinned Under Tractor

Northern Star · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 5

CASINO, Friday.—Alec Beezley, of Dobie's Bight, aged about 50, a returned soldier from the last war, received serious injuries late this…

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Heavy Drain On Hoop Pine Butter Box Manufacture Affected

Northern Star · Monday 24 January 1944 · page 4

Having been requested recently by the Deputy Controller of Timber to commence the production of butter boxes, the Veneer Company…

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Wheat Silo Proposal for Casino

Northern Star · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 4

CASINO, Monday.-In a telegram received by Mr. W. Sullivan, Chairman of Casino Cooperative Dairy Society Ltd., the…

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Trouble in Vic. Wool Stores

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday: Workers in six wool stores did not report for duty today, following a decision by secret ballot to…

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Cattle Tick Eradication Twelve Outbreaks Only in Three Years

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 5

The routine dipping of stock in the Grafton-Maclean areas for the eradication of cattle tick will come to an end during this month…

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Closing Of Forty Dairy Farms Causing Serious Loss Of Production In Grafton District

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 6

Forty farms in the Grafton area had ceased supplying cream and pigs to Grafton Co-operative Dairy Co. as a result of manpower shortage and this represented a loss of production amounting to 40 tons of butter a month as well as 200 pigs and large quantities of poultry and eggs, said the manager of the factory, Mr A. E. Harrison, in reply to questions by a representative of the Grafton…

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Govt. Purchase of Butter Output Advocated

Northern Star · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 5

"That the Central Executive investigate the advantages or disadvantages likely to result from the Commonwealth Government…

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"Scully Sidetracked on Farm Labor"

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tuesday: At the request of the War Cabinet, the War Commitments Committee is examining the diversion of…

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Casual Labour Shortage Causes Farms to Close

Northern Star · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Dunn) said to-day the main reason why dairy farms were going out of production…

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Dairy Production Improved Feeding Advocated

Northern Star · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 5

The senior Dairy Instructor ((Mr. S. R. Ballard) in an address given to the North Coast branch of the Guernsey Society advocated the…

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"Gov't Purchase of Butter"

Tweed Daily · Thursday 27 January 1944 · page 2

"That the Central Executive investigate the advantages or disadvantages likely to result from the Commonwealth Government…

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Wheat Silo When Trucks Available

Northern Star · Thursday 27 January 1944 · page 4

CASINO, Wednesday.—Mr. Harrison, Manager of the Government Grain Elevators, discussed yesterday with representatives of the…

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