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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

2,090 stories in Riverina's papers · page 62 of 105

Labor Shortage on Dairy Farms

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 August 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Inquiries by the Director-General of Manpower (Mr. Wurth) into allegations that dairy farmers had…

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Have We Too Many Sheep ? 125 Million an All-Time Record

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 3 August 1942 · page 2

Is 125 million sheep—the highest number on record—too many for Australia to carry? Some experts consider that it is…

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Land Girls 2000 More for Farms

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 August 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Within three months N.S.W. rural work will take approximately 2000 more of the Women's Land Army, the…

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Farmer Fined at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 August 1942 · page 2

At the Junee Police Court James Henry Carroll, farmer, of Murrulebale, was fined £5 with costs for driving a motor lorry…

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Junee Farmer Loses License

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 3 August 1942 · page 2

A Junee district farmer Mr Jas Henry Carroll, lost for 12 months his license to drive a motor vehicle. Carroll pleaded guilty to driving a…

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Wheat Crop Conditions

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 2

Reports from agricultural instructors and honorary crop correspondents indicate that favourable weather conditions are being experienced…

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Wool Cheque

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 2

Something cheerful for the graziers! Cheques totalling £7,887,548, have been posted to woolgrowers and their agents, throughout the…

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J. Hardie, of "Pastoral Symphony"

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 2

The morning serial on the National programme to begin broadcasting on Monday, 20th July…

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Idle Wool Trucks

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 1

Late last week the President of the Graziers' Association of New South Wales. Mr. H. R. Cowdery, made the following statement to the Press:—…

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Wool Clip Increased Price

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 1

A dispute over the period oF allocating the 15 per cent, increase in the price which the Government of the United Kingdom has undertaken to…

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Wool Price Extra 2d a Lb Opposed

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 4

Mr. J. P. Abbott, chairman of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council, said that the Junee wool growers' proposal that an increased price of 2d a lb be…

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Growers to Get £7,887,000 Wool Cheque

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 3

Cheques totalling £7,887,548 have been posted to wool growers and their agents throughout the Commonwealth by the Central Wool…

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The Graziers' Assn. of N.S.W. Tumut Branch Treatment of Sheep Against Blowfly

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 3

Demonstration of Mules Operation by Mr. N. Graham, Veterinary Research Officer of the Council for Scientific and…

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The Graziers' Association of N.S.W. News Letter Idle Wool Trucks

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 4

The president of the Graziers Association of New South Wales, Mr. H. R. Cowdery, made the following statement to the Press:—…

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Classing the Farmer's Clip Need for Systematic Methods

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 3

Systematic procedure and convenient arrangement of the wool rolling table enable both greater efficiency and saving in labour in the operation…

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District News Sandigo Farmers & Settlers' Association

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 1

The monthly meeting of the Sandigo Farmers and Settlers' Association was held at the Hall on Wednesday. July 22. Mr. H. T. Scilley…

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Amateur Farmers Boys and Masters

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 4

Quite recently the New South Wales Teachers' Federation announced that 1000 teachers had undertaken to make their services…

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Scared Of Bulls Farmer Charged with Ill-treating an Animal

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 1

THAT he was scared of bulls and had been tossed several times during his life was one of the excuses advanced on behalf of…

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Farmers' Patriotic Stock Drive

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 3

Mr. Martin Rourke asks that in order to wind-up the Farmers' Patriotic Stock and Produce Drive, that all those who promised stock, etc., will…

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Wool Report

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 5 August 1942 · page 2

The Farmers and Graziers' Co- operative Co. reports on the 3rd inst:-- We submitted our first catalogue, of the 194243 season on the 28th…

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