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Farming & the land, 1944

6,082 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 250

Urgent Appeal to Slaughter Cattle

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Despite an urgent request by the Meat Exporters' Association that they work at double rates of pay, slaughtermen in the Metropolitan area are unlikely to forgo their holiday tomorrow…

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Wheat Quotations Overseas and Sydney

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 4

All overseas quotes are for Saturday, January 15, 1944, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…

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Wheat Production Comment by Dr. S. L. Macindoe

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 4

Dr. S. L. Macindoe, in discussing a statement by the chairman of the Australian Wheat Board, Sir Clive M[?]son in which…

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Fighting Wool Substitutes Long-range Plan by Dominions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 6

Australian woolgrowers, with those of South Africa and New Zealand, have developed a longrange policy to deal with the…

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Farmers' Lack of Labour "No Weight" in Pleas to Army

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 4

"In spite of more favourable seasonal conditions, dairy production has declined by 25 per cent, in Inverell district in the…

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Welfare Worker's Dairy Y.W.C.A. To Open Big Course Of Lectures

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 11

THE vast and varied work of the Y.W.C.A., also its aim to keep young people healthy and mentally alert, is revealed in the extensive 1944 programme to be released shortly. AMONG the cultural activities…

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1- Each for Sheep

The Sun · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- Some sheep from bushfire areas, bearing signs of fire, but otherwise quite good, were sold for…

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New South Wales Branch Meat Rationing for Pastoral Workers

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 2

I have been advised by the Rationing Commission that where meat is killed on the station property and supplied to employees…

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Substitutes for Wool Action To Counteract Them

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 2

Australian woolgrowers, with those of South Africa and New Zealand, have developed a long-range policy to deal with the…

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Wool and Competing Fibres Position In Belgium

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 2

In Great Britain a textile authority seeks to correct extreme statements that artificial fibres are ousting wool (state…

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Wool Not Being Ousted By Synthetic Fibres FINANCE

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 8

EXTREME statements that artificial fibres are ousting: wool are discounted in Great Britain. One textile authority there describes such statements as incorrect. QUOTING this authority, the…

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Organisers' Reports Wheat Silos and Fruit. Branch President Ted Withers

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 7

Since last report I have finished up the wheat silos in the Riverina, and may state I obtained a good enrolment. There are many…

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Holiday Pay Dispute Farm Machinery Plants Close

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Work has been stopped at the agricultural implement factories of H. V. McKay, of Sunshine, Mitchell…

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Co-operation Saves Man-power Farm Deterioration

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 5

Co-operation among farmers and the people of the district generally had resulted in the cereal harvest in the Mudgee-Coonabarabran district…

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Seek Injured Farmer In Mountain Ranges

The Sun · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- Three rescue parties have gone into wild country in Gippsland to rescue Robert Goldie, (64), farmer, of Boisdale, who was critically injured…

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Injured Farmer Rescued By Plane

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A man who had lain four days in Gippsland mountains badly injured was rescued today by aeroplane…

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Fears of Butter Shortage

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 2

CANBERRA, Friday. -- Although Federal officials deny a worsening of the civilian butter position and the possibility of…

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Reduction In Butter Possible

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 5

CANBERRA, Thursday.--Serious decline in Australia's butter production may mean a cut in the…

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Fears of Butter Shortage

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 2

CANBERRA, Friday. -- Although Federal officials deny a worsening of the civilian butter position and the possibility of…

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Irregular Demand for Cattle

The Land · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 12

On Monday, the State Marketing Bureau reports:—Reduced numbers of cattle were forward, aggregating 1290 head, including 136 auctioned in the store section. Light…

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