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Farming & the land, 1943

231 stories in South Coast's papers · page 5 of 12

Butter Price for Farmer BETWEEN 1/5 AND 1/6 FORECAST

The Bega District News · Thursday 27 May 1943 · page 3

The Prices Commissioner, Professor Copland, told a meeting of dairying representatives in Grafton that he calculated that, under the butter subsidy…

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Dairying Industry Beale Writes to Scully

The South Coast Register · Thursday 27 May 1943 · page 4

The Member for the South Coast (Mr. J. G. Beale) sends us the following copy of a communication addressed to the Hon. W. J. Scully,…

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Spirit of the Cattle Men Kangaroo Valley to Hold One-day Show

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 2 June 1943 · page 5

The attendance at the Kangaroo Valley A. and H. Association meeting, called to consider holding a 1944 show was disappointing, but…

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Dairy Uplift Dependent on Sound Prices

The Bega District News · Thursday 3 June 1943 · page 6

Dairy farmers would readily fall in with any well-planned scheme of production provided it was backed by reasonably safe and sound prices for…

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Farmers Resentful Criticism by “Office Farmer”

The South Coast Register · Thursday 3 June 1943 · page 1

An address delivered by Mr. F. Wigan, the Supervisor of Dairy Exports, at the conference of dairy factory managers and secretaries in…

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£4 16s per week for dairy hands. Proposed Award

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 4 June 1943 · page 4

Mr. Clarke, general secretary of the Primary Producers' Union, in an address at Bega last week, dealt at length with the proposed…

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Butter Rationed Half Pound Per Person Per Week

The Bega District News · Monday 7 June 1943 · page 2

From to-day butter throughout Australia will be rationed to half a pound per person per week. The people of Britain get only two…

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Infertility in Cattle

The Bega District News · Thursday 10 June 1943 · page 6

The cow (1942) is a wonderful animal She maintains an abnormal lactation throughout twelve-thirteenths of her [?] life, produces offspring…

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The Butter and Cheese Subsidy

The Bega District News · Thursday 10 June 1943 · page 1

From Adelaide recently, Mr. W. S. Kelly, Agricultural Adviser t. the Prices Commissioner, gave a broadcast entitled “A Talk to the Dairy…

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Absence of Flavour in Butter

The Bega District News · Thursday 10 June 1943 · page 6

The reported comment by Mr W. Laffan, senior Commonwealth butter grader on the lack of distinctive flavour in butter from many Australian…

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Zone Producers Warned Butter Rationing

The South Coast Register · Thursday 10 June 1943 · page 3

Senator Keene’s announcement on Sunday that butter was to be rational to half pound to each person per week, has caused all sorts of…

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Mcchanfsatlon of Farms

The Bega District News · Thursday 10 June 1943 · page 3

“The scheme of dairy farm mechanisation soon to come into operation in the Illawarra district promises to mark the greatest advance in [?]…

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Butter Hint Mix It with Milk

The Bega District News · Monday 14 June 1943 · page 4

“The butter ration can be ‘stretched’ by adding an ounce of milk to four ounces of butter and creaming the mixture thoroughly” This advice is given…

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Dairying Award CONDITIONS [?] RATES

The Bega District News · Monday 14 June 1943 · page 2

Proposed terms [?] first award for employees on Australian dairy farms were announced by Judge Kelly in the Arbitration [?] last, week…

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Current Topics [?] the Dairy Award

The Bega District News · Thursday 17 June 1943 · page 2

It is no exaggeration to state that the wages award for the-dairy industry, notwithstanding the subsidy of 6½ millions, , has created consternation…

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Mechanisation of the Dairying Industry Nowra District War Agricultural Committee Makes History Premier McKELL Turns the First Furrow at Bomaderry

The South Coast Register · Thursday 17 June 1943 · page 4

“THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY in the history of the dairying industry and I am sure that when the farmers realise its true…

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Farm Mechanisation Big Demonstration at Bomderry

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 23 June 1943 · page 4

“After I turn the first furrow, the responsibility them rests with the farmers. Go to it.”…

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Minister Defends Butter Rationing

The Bega District News · Thursday 24 June 1943 · page 6

The decision to nation butter to half a pound a bead weekly was the decision of the Government and not of the Rationing Commission, the Minister…

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A Dietitian’s Hint Instead of Butter, More Vegetables

The South Coast Register · Thursday 24 June 1943 · page 4

Here is an interesting extract from the Sunday Sun. The advice from the dietitian interviewed comes from an ex-Berryite, Miss Joan…

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Mechanised Farming in Dairying Districts. Important Conference at Bega

The Bega District News · Thursday 24 June 1943 · page 1

At Bega on Friday there was a representative attendance of factory directors from every part of the Far South together with others interested,…

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