"Butter Hand-Out, Political Stunt" Beale Criticises Federal Government
The Bega District News · Friday 4 November 1949 · page 1
"With an election in the offing, and under pressure from producers, the Federal Government has been forced to accept its financial responsibility and pay butter producers a price increase," declared Mr. Jack G. Beale M.L.A., Member for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Junior Farmers Lucky With Weather “Elmgrove” Looked Its Best For Visitors
The Bega District News · Tuesday 8 November 1949 · page 4
With one glorious early summer day between two which were uncomfortably wet and dull from storm clouds, the Bega District Junior Farmers’ Clubs might be termed lucky to have completed its field day last Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Moffitt Men Purchase “Kent Farm” Will Operate As Partnership
The Bega District News · Tuesday 8 November 1949 · page 2
Three brothers, Harold, William, and Edward Moffitt, sons of Mr. J. W. Moffitt, of Bega, have purchased Kent Farm, Tilba, and will work it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Interest in School Experiment Farm Agricultural Course Functioning Well
The Bega District News · Friday 11 November 1949 · page 2
So intense was the struggle to have an agricultural course added to the curriculum of the Bega Intermediate High School that now it has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cattle Stealing Case Long List of Witnesses
The Bega District News · Tuesday 15 November 1949 · page 2
In the case at the Bega Court of Petty Sessions, last Wednesday when Cyril Victor “Buck” Denny, Candelo sleeper cutter, was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Worry of Cream Sales Small Sales Compared to Butter
The Bega District News · Tuesday 15 November 1949 · page 4
Some suppliers to the Bega Butter Factory have been worried for a time about the amount and price of sweet cream that is sold by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairying and 40-Hour Week Costs Not Possible Until Award Amended
The Bega District News · Tuesday 15 November 1949 · page 2
Mr. Jim O’Meara, Southern District Council delegate to the P.P.U. Central Executive, has reported that the butter and cheese industry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Better Farming League Arrangements for Trip to Hawkesbury College
The South Coast Register · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 1
Arrangements were discussed by members of the league to visit the Hawkesbury Agricultural Collegeâthe annual trip of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A.P.P.U. Chief Says Farmers Misled Declares Butter Price Rise Is Political
The Bega District News · Friday 18 November 1949 · page 1
Mr. H. V. Sterling, president of the Victorian division of Australian Primary Producers’ Union, has stated that producers have been misled by their own leaders who had oftern repeated the statement that the industry was secured by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Dairymen’s Show Keen Rivalry Among Dairy Farmers
The Bega District News · Friday 18 November 1949 · page 10
Daily farming in Britain has made consistent and notable progress during the last ten years. This is very apparent from the size and quality of livestock…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Great Interest in Blackberry Killer Farmers From Bodalla To Orbost Watch Tests
The Bega District News · Tuesday 22 November 1949 · page 1
There were close to a hundred thoroughly interested people at the Jellat Jellat end of the Merimbula Road, on Friday, when a demonstration of spraying a blackberry bush with a hormone mixture was given…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →District Butter Factories’ Outputs
The Bega District News · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 4
Factory figures for October: South Wolumla 1949, 30.93 tons, 1948, 19.37 has an increase this year for October of 11.56 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cattle Handed Over by Bega’s Mayor
The Bega District News · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 9
Surrounded by cattle donations from all parts of the State, Aid. Chas Ayres, Mayor of Bega, is thanked by Aid. Murray, Mayor of the flood devastated town of Kempsey, for 252 magnificent head of Jersey cattle from the Bega District. A special expert committee has been set up in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Cattle We Sent to the Macleay Committee Presents Its Final Report
The Bega District News · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 9
The people of this district responded so spontaneously to the appeal for assistance for the flood devastated rural population of the Macleay River Valley that the result was the best in the State per head of population. Public bodies co-operated without hesitation in administering the appeal. This provided…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Junior Farmers’ Show
The South Coast Register · Thursday 1 December 1949 · page 2
The Gerringong Junior Farmersâ Show takes place on Jubilee Park on Saturday next, and, as in the past, keen competition is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cloudburst at Bundywalla Hail Causes Much Damage to Tomato Crop
The South Coast Register · Thursday 1 December 1949 · page 2
A cloudburst at Bundywalla on Sunday last, accompanied by terrific hail, caused considerable damage to tomato and bean…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Mutilated on Candelo Road Bus and Animals Collide
The Bega District News · Friday 2 December 1949 · page 3
When Mr. Vic Heffernan and his brother, Mr. Fred Heffernan, were moving some two hundred head of sheep along the Candelo Road, near Kanoona,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Butter Stabilisation Act Needed” N.S.W. A.P.P.U. Head Sick Of PROMISES
The Bega District News · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 1
“There is an urgent need for the incoming Federal Government to bring down a Bill for a Butter Stabilisation Act without delay when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bracken Fern Control Commonwealth Dairy Grant Field Day
The Bega District News · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 5
To determine the efficiency of various methods of bracken fern control, a demonstration was carried out by the Commonwealth Dairy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Will Remain on Home Farm John McFAUL Will Not Go to Hawkesbury
The Bega District News · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 9
John McFaal, of Central Tilba, who was awarded a three years’ scholarship, at Hawkesbury Agriculture College, following his…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →