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Farming & the land, 1942

2,090 stories in Riverina's papers · page 56 of 105

Less Wheat in N.s.w. 1,000,000 Acres Down

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 14 July 1942 · page 4

Nearly 1,000,000 fewer acres have been sown to wheat in New South Wales this season than last. The sowing is not quite complete,…

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Potato Crops Lost

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 July 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—The [?] of the Division of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture (Mr. M'Donald) said to-day that…

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Farmers' Debts and Rural Reconstruction Statement by Premier

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 July 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—"Farmers and settlers, who through fortuitous circumstances have experienced very great difficulty in at once carrying…

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Election Of Repatriation Committee Interest of Farmers and Citizens Desired

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 July 1942 · page 4

A PUBLIC meeting is to be held on the last Thursday in this month, July 30, to elect a representative committee to deal with…

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1941-42 Wheat Crop Basis of Payment Conflicting Statements

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 July 1942 · page 2

Recently the Minister for Commerce (Mr Scully) announced that he proposed to spread the payment necessary to pay 3/10…

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Concern Over Wheat Policy

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 July 1942 · page 3

PERTH, Tuesday.—Concern at the continued uncertainty of "the Federal Government's wheat policy" was expressed in a resolution carried at the…

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Correspondence (We do not necessarily endorse the views of our correspondents) Sympathy with Farmers (The Editor, "The Daily Advertiser)

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 July 1942 · page 4

Sir.—I would be obliged if you would publish the following in answer to Arthur Duke's reply to my letter Evidently Mr. Duke is not a farmer…

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Junee Council to Discuss Zoning of Milk With Representatives From Local Dairymen

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 15 July 1942 · page 1

THE RATIONALISATION OF BAKERS AND DAMRY DELIVERIES IS TO TAKE THE FORM OF 70 NING, AND NOT NON- DELIVERY, ACCORDING TO A LETTER RECEIVED BY THE JUNEE- MUNICIPAL COUNCIL LAST NIGHT FROM THE DEPARTMENT…

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Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area The Story of the M.I.A. Farmers Plan to Help Britain by Producing More Butter

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 July 1942 · page 4

Britain's request for butter in her present pressing need has not gone unheeded on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, and already there is a movement on foot, sponsored by Mr. P. Grace, of…

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Opening Wool Offerings Burr and Its Effects

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 16 July 1942 · page 7

Zone shearing has much accelerated the consignment of wool to the N.S.W. seaboard though shed operations at present are…

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Wool Rise Will Benefit Some More Than Others

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 16 July 1942 · page 5

Information received in Junee indicates that the recent 2d a pound rise in the price of wool is not going to be all that it is cracked up to be. The anomaly seen in the scheme is that the increased payments are…

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No Supplies of Knitting Wool Statement by Commonwealth Rationing Commission

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 16 July 1942 · page 3

Knitters should remember that Australia has no surplus of knitting wool, an official of the Rationing Commission stated this…

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Gundagai Wool Secures Season's Highest Price Gunnong Jugrawah Tops Comeback List Retention and Equalisation Dividend Payable on July 31

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 16 July 1942 · page 1

THAT Gundagai is one of the best wool growing districts in the Commonwealth was again proved by the official list of the season's prices compiled by the Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association. The Gunnong Jugrawah comeback clip topped the market for the 1941/…

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Wagga Cattle Market

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 July 1942 · page 3

The associated agents of Wagga—the Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co., Dalgety & Co., the A.M.L. & F. Co., Tapscott. Thorne & Co., and…

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Wheat Plan Supported

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 17 July 1942 · page 2

Cowra District Council of the Farmers and Settlers’ Association has endorsed the Sculty wheat scheme providing for the payment of 4/ a bushel for the first…

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1941-42 Wheat Crop Basis of Payment Conflicting Statements

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 July 1942 · page 4

Recently the Hon. W. J. Scully, M.H.R., Minister for commerce, announced that he proposed to spread the payment necessary to pay 3/10…

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1941-42 Wheat Crop Basis of Payment Conf[?] Statements

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 17 July 1942 · page 4

Recently the Hon. W. J. Seulty, M.H.R. (Minister far Commerce) announced that he proposed to agreed the payment [?] to pay 3/10 [?] for 140,000,000…

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Wheat Pool Final Delivery Date

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 17 July 1942 · page 2

The State Superintendent of the Australian Wheal Board (Mr. E. A. Holborough) says that August the 15th had been fixed as the last day on which…

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No Shortage of Meat Record Sheep Numbers

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 17 July 1942 · page 4

There is little risk of a scarcity of meat in Australia Because of much larger consumption, supplied of beet may have to he conserved, but we have more sheep…

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Us. Wool Supplies Large Stocks

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 17 July 1942 · page 4

Mr. Byron Wilson, secretary of the National Woolgrowers’ Association, told a Senate committee that the United Sates’ wool supply was so large that…

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