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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1966

21 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2

More Rice Crops Destroyed

Tribune · Wednesday 16 February 1966 · page 4

NEW YORK: The New York Times has reported that south Vietnamese rice fields will be destroyed by…

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Letters to the Editor A better deal for the potato farmer

Tribune · Wednesday 16 February 1966 · page 4

WITH the present price of potatoes ranging from 6d to 1- per lb., the housewife naturally…

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Wee Waa: Australia's 'Deep South' Aborigines hunted like animals from Yank cotton farms

Tribune · Wednesday 2 March 1966 · page 5

SYDNEY: Now that the seasonal work in the cotton has finished, Aboriginal families have been ordered by police and council officials to tear down their bag humpies and move on -- or be driven off like cattle…

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World poultry farmers will meet in Kiev

Tribune · Wednesday 23 March 1966 · page 8

AUSTRALIA, already preparing its exhibits for the International Farming Machinery Exhibition in Moscow next May, will be represented at the World Poultry…

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Farmers act against Country Party

Tribune · Wednesday 23 March 1966 · page 12

PERTH: West Australia's 10,000 members of the Farmers' Union threaten to withdraw support from Country Party members of Parliament. This is implied in the overall tenor of reports, debate…

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Jewish owner’s cattle win

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 8 April 1966 · page 5

Well-known communal identity, Mr. Albert Scheinberg, scored a clean sweep in the Beef Cattle section for Brahmins at the…

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SU plans farm land increase

Tribune · Wednesday 8 June 1966 · page 9

MOSCOW: The Soviet Union's farm lands will be increased over the next 10 years through…

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Aussie sheep go on Aliyah

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 17 June 1966 · page 3

DR. SOLOMON GOLDBERG, Sydney doctor, who sent 1,200 sheep to Israel, was guest at a Hillel Foundation Lunch Time Program at Sydney University last Tuesday…

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Dairy Farmers Won't Cop Askin's Sops

Tribune · Wednesday 22 June 1966 · page 12

LISMORE: One thousand dairy farmers from all sections of the New South Wales north coast crowded into the city hall here last week, for the largest protest meeting ever held in Lismore. The meeting was organised by the Richmond district Primary Producers…

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Merinos on Tien Shin's Slopes "Death on Wings" guards new Soviet fine-wool flocks

Tribune · Wednesday 22 June 1966 · page 6

INSTEAD of a Kelpie sheepdog, "Death on Wings" -- the golden eagle of the Tien Shan Mountains…

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[?]ghiz farm [?] a history Betty Lockwood adds a postscript

Tribune · Wednesday 22 June 1966 · page 6

SIXTY [?] year - old doubled [?] of socialist labor [?] Kainezarova told [?] the Salieva…

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WA draftee's funeral Farmer of 21 sent to die in Vietnam

Tribune · Wednesday 27 July 1966 · page 1

PERTH: The Government's policy on conscription was criticised by the Rev. Dr. B. R. Adderley after he had conducted Requium Mass at the funeral of WA's first national service conscript to die in…

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On the Industrial Scene Unions' answer to port congestion Blueprint for Botany Bay if the wool boys will be in it

Tribune · Wednesday 10 August 1966 · page 10

SYDNEY: Waterfront unions have proposed a plan to develop Botany Bay as a modern port, which they claim, would overcome the present process of traffic strangulation now choking the city…

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Modern France Arts and Techniques A comprehensive industrial dairy centre

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 19 August 1966 · page 4

M R. EDGAR FAURE, just inaugurated an industrial dairy centre at Estressin in the suburbs of Vienne, is the result of a very extensive…

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On the Industrial Scene Freight Rise Knocks Fruit, Cattle Trade But Vesteys will survive

Tribune · Wednesday 31 August 1966 · page 10

SYDNEY: The latest threat by overseas shipping monopolies to again raise freight rates, this time by 6.4 per cent brought immediate and strong protests from Australian fruit gowers. According to the Financial…

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Warwick Farm car races

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 13 September 1966 · page 2

A programme of 13 races is set down for the National Open meeting at Warwick…

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Unknown words in the cattle country Compo for Aborigines

Tribune · Wednesday 21 September 1966 · page 5

ANY worker in Australia, who, in the course of his work or during the time of his travel…

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US land grabbing a 'national scandal' Big pastoral leases to foreign monopolies

Tribune · Wednesday 5 October 1966 · page 12

CANBERRA: The handing ever of 1,724 square miles of Northern Territory land to an American company was a grave national scandal, Mr. Clyde Cameron, MHR (Lab. SA) said in Federal parliament recently…

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Bumper Soviet crop

Tribune · Wednesday 19 October 1966 · page 4

THERE has been a great deal of criticism of the state of Soviet Agriculture over the past several years,…

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Reforms bring record crop

Tribune · Wednesday 9 November 1966 · page 9

MOSCOW: Early successes in Soviet agricultural reforms contributing to a record grain harvest will have a profound effect on world wheat markets. Pravda says that the main…

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