Cattle barons' cheap labor
BRISBANE: Even with new rises gazetted last month, Queensland Aborigines working on stations are still paid cheap-labor rates, below those of white workers on similar work…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farming & the land, 1962
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Overseas Stars for Farm Races
The second international motor race meeting will be held on Sunday, February 4, on the Warwick Farm circuit. Overseas drivers who will take part include…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Dairy Industry Conference on Milk Prices
The Milk Board's recommendation for a reduction In the price paid to producers of milk has resulted…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm Officer to Open Luddenham Show
Luddenham Show this year will be opened by a Sydney University representative of experimental farms at Badgery's Creek and Cobbitty, Mr. Geddes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool scour stop
SYDNEY: One hundred and fifty workers in 12 unions stopped work for two days last week at F. W. Hughes, Sydney wool scourers and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Soviet grain crop
STORIES about an agricultural crisis and food shortages in the Soviet Union are given the lie by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bars wheat for china
THE Australian Wheat Board has been forbidden to sell wheat to People's China on trade terms spread…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Research Farm Director Opens Show
Direct of university research farms, Mr. H. J. Geddos opening Luddenham Show. Seated facing the camera are Mesdames J. Bate, W. Morehead, J. Cruikshank, and H. Sales. Ald. J. Cruikshank is to the left of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Show Opening 'Water Key to Farms' at Luddenham
Irrigation was the key to successful farming in the district, Mr. H. J. Geddes said when opening the 1962 Luddenham Show on Saturday. Stationed at Camden,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool sales to China
SYDNEY: Australia will try to sell more wool to China following an admission by the International Wool Secretariat that rising living…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Ayrshire cattle to be featured Breeders' Day at 1962 SHOW
The 1962 Parramatta Show has been selected by the Ayrshire Cattle Breeders' Society as the venue for a Society Feature Day. State's best here…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Star Farmer Award's New System
A new system of allotting points to competitors in this year's Rural Bank "Star" Junior Farmer…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Penrith Show Pavilion Highlight by Jnr. Farmers
At feast four junior farmer clubs will be competing this year in the first inter-district club competition to be held at Penrith show. Entries for the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wool and basil strike: Workers take action over pay demands
A stopwork meeting of all wool and basil workers in NSW last Friday unanimously decided to stay on strike until the employers sign an agreement to continue a .30- per week over-award payment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Poultry men resist attack on small farmers
OVER 350 rank and file poultry farmers held a mass protest meeting outside the N.S.W. Egg Board last Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Soviet farms' success
SOVIET successes, in agriculture were mentioned by Soviet Premier Khruschoy in his address to the recent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Winning Junior Farmers' Exhibit
Epping Junior Farmers' Club exhibit, one of the four entered by junior farmers' clubs in Penrith Show. The "painting" at the rear, appproximately eight feet by four feet, was pieced together from thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Junior Farmers Reap "Seeds of Time"
Countless hours of Work by junior farmers heightened the continuing improvement in the main pavilion seen at the 1962. Penrith show last weekend…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →3,000 Skeins of Wool Make Coventry Tapestry
A FRENCH tapestry designed by British artist, Graham Sutherland, and said to be the largest in the world, is being hung in Coventry…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cattle section in state spotlight
A move at Parramatta Show this weekend could produce a dramatic change in future cattle sections here. The State's leading…
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