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South Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1941

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The Man on the Land Dairy Instructors’ Reports Tweed to Bangalow

The South Coast Register · Thursday 31 July 1941 · page 6

Mr. A. L. Astbury, senior dairy instructor, in charge of the dairying district. Tweed to Bungalow, with headquarters, Byron Bay, in…

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Bolong Usual Monthly Meeting Junior Farmers’ Club

The South Coast Register · Thursday 31 July 1941 · page 5

The usual monthly meeting of the Bolong Junior Farmers’ Club was held on Monday night last, in the Coolangatta School…

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Strike May Be Averted State Government Confident Dairymen’s Threat

The South Coast Register · Thursday 31 July 1941 · page 5

The “S.M. Herald” says:— The State Government is confident that the threatened strike of dairymen in the milk zone will be…

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Plea for Dairymen In the Legislative Assembly Messrs. Beale and Fowles Outspoken

The South Coast Register · Thursday 31 July 1941 · page 5

The existence of slavery, particularly child slavery, and dire poverty in the dairying industry on the south coast of N.S.W. was…

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Women’s Land Army Instruction at Berry Farm

The South Coast Register · Thursday 31 July 1941 · page 2

The Minister for Education, Mr. Clive Evatt, has approved of the proposal to train members of the Women’s Land Army at various…

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Record Sheep Population

The Bega District News · Monday 4 August 1941 · page 4

Australia’s sheep population has now reached the gigantic total of 123 millions, a figure far in advance of any previous records. It is not so…

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Red Cross Cattle Drive Heque for £726 Handed Over

The Bega District News · Monday 4 August 1941 · page 2

At a meeting in Bega Council Chambers on Tuesday evening, the Ceremony of handing over to the Red cross the proceeds of the cattle drive…

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Irrigation on Coastal Dairy Farms As a Safeguard Against Shortage of Feed

The Bega District News · Monday 4 August 1941 · page 1

The frequency of dry spells in the coastal belt, together with the scarcity of natural feed at such times, suggests the need for some form of…

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Dairying in Ireland. Its Interesting History

The Bega District News · Monday 4 August 1941 · page 4

Although there are two distinct departments of agriculture operating in Ireland, one in Northern Ireland and the other in the Free State, the…

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Oppressing the Farmer Greater Sydney Swindle

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 6 August 1941 · page 5

During the recent State election campaign I told the dairy farmers of Illawarra that they could hope for nothing from a Labor Government…

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Bolong Junior Farmers’ Club

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 6 August 1941 · page 5

The usual monthly meeting was held on Monday night of last week, in the Coolangatta school. There was a very good attendance, Mr. Chalmers…

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Berry Butter Factory

The South Coast Register · Thursday 7 August 1941 · page 2

Only three nominations have been received for the three vacancies on the board of directors of the Berry Dairy Co., and consequently no…

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District Dairy Report

The Bega District News · Thursday 7 August 1941 · page 2

Mr S. R. Ballard, senior dairy instructor, reports for July: — Pastoral and agricultural conditions throughout the district further…

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The Milk Problem Berry Farmers Will not Withhold Supplies of Milk

The South Coast Register · Thursday 7 August 1941 · page 6

The farmers of Berry—about 40 of them—met at the School of Arts on Saturday night last and decided that they would not…

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New Butter Plan

The Bega District News · Thursday 14 August 1941 · page 2

If investigations being made by the Council for Solentific Research are successful, butter may leave Australia soon for Great Britain, and for the…

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Pastoral Conditions Monthly Press Report

The South Coast Register · Thursday 14 August 1941 · page 5

Reports from field officers of the Division of Animal Industry indicate that the pastoral conditions throughout the State vary very…

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Butter Quality Local Market

The South Coast Register · Thursday 14 August 1941 · page 5

Mr. O. C. Ballhausen, chief of the division of dairying, writes:—“I desire to report that, of the butter graded by State butter…

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Surplus Maize Yield. Can Well Be Utilised on the Farm

The Bega District News · Thursday 14 August 1941 · page 6

This season’s maize crop promises to exceed by 1½ million bushels the average (3,072,000 bushels) of the last ten years. In the absence of normal…

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Gerringong Junior Farmers’ Dance

The South Coast Register · Thursday 14 August 1941 · page 3

The Gerringong Junior Farmers’ Club held a very successful euchre party and dance on a fifty-fifty basis with the Red Cross…

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Junior Farmers Annual Meeting of Berry Club

The South Coast Register · Thursday 14 August 1941 · page 6

There was an attendance of about forty at the annual meeting of the Berry Junior Fanners’ Club, which was held at the Jasper’s Brush Hall…

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