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Farming & the land, 1962

72 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 4

Farming Changes Rotary Told

The Biz · Wednesday 31 October 1962 · page 5

The revolution in farming methods taking place! in the County of Cumberland and districts surrounding Sydney was explained to Cabramatta Rotary Club…

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Monopoly crushes The small farmers and jacks up prices

Tribune · Wednesday 14 November 1962 · page 5

Monopoly is crushing thousands of small vegetable, fruit, poultry, dairy and pig farmers throughout Australia. In all fields of primary production farmers are discontented and fearful of the future…

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Junior Farmer's Award

Nepean Times · Thursday 15 November 1962 · page 6

A junior farmer whose family have farmed the one property for more than 120 years has been chosen…

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Wool Workers Strike for Wage Rises

Tribune · Wednesday 21 November 1962 · page 12

SYDNEY: A stopwork meeting of wool and basil workers last Friday unanimously decided to stay on strike until the employers agree to wage increases ranging from 6- to 19-…

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Worker, Farmer unity grows

Tribune · Wednesday 21 November 1962 · page 7

Three workers of Port Kembla (New South Wales)--Messrs. L. Jones, A. Curyer and J. Howe--recently travelled through the Nowra district and Kangaroo Valley to discuss with farmers the campaigns of the…

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Junior Farmers' Planting Scheme

Nepean Times · Thursday 22 November 1962 · page 2

Upper Castlereagh Junior Farmers' Club leaders, Miss H. Wright and Mr. J. Mortimer, have suggested…

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Wool & Basil Workers' strike. Judge shatters illusion on penal clauses

Tribune · Wednesday 28 November 1962 · page 12

A statement by Judge Dunphy last Monday shattered the theory currently being peddled by some extreme rightwing trade union officials that unions can resist the imposition of penal orders by legal…

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Saloon cars again for Warwick Farm

The Biz · Wednesday 28 November 1962 · page 20

Saloon cars, tor the second successive year, will compete for the A.J.C. Trophy over 15 laps at Warwick Farm circuit on December 2. There are only two…

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Sheep for our deserts

Tribune · Wednesday 5 December 1962 · page 6

IT might be worth while for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation to send a wool…

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Wool and basil workers fight for wage principle

Tribune · Wednesday 5 December 1962 · page 11

SYDNEY: Wool and basil workers, on strike since November 15, against a decision of the employers to absorb recent award increases in existing over-award payments, are appealing for support from all other…

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Ask the Wheat Men. Tribune

Tribune · Wednesday 12 December 1962 · page 1

WHEAT farmers, thousands of whom have been saved from bankruptcy by Socialist Chinese wheat purchases, are…

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Peruvian farm workers strike

Tribune · Wednesday 12 December 1962 · page 11

MORE than 10,000 farm workers in the valley of Canete, south of the Peruvian capital Lima have been on strike for more than a week for an…

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