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Primary Industries Advisory Committee. [on tab: “10000 bushels”] PART 1., 1968-1969

 File — box-folder: 19-13

Scope and contents

Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Canberra. Classification of Rural Holdings by Size and Type of Activity. 1965-1966. Bulletin No.7, Australia. Loose at back, notes on prices to growers; Convention notice for July 1968; B.A.S.’s notes “Primary Industries Advisory Council” 27 Aug. 1968; Notes re proposal that any government guarantee to the wheat industry be applied to first 3000 bushels of each grower’s crop; agenda for P.I.A.C. meeting, 27 Aug. 1968; Bulletin 9 Oct. 1968 re Wheat Stabilization Plan; Wild to Paul McGowan, 17 Dec. 1968 re 3000 bushels proposal and his belief that this would put growers of 500 acres at a disadvantage (encloses material on the proposal) and asks for advice, with reply; correspondence with others whose advice has been sought; P.M. Finlayson, F.H. Gruen; Ian Sinclair to Wild, 2 June 1969, commenting on the Rural Life article setting out the N.C.R.M. policy on wheat, enclosing D. Antony’s statement; M. Howley’s paper, “The next Ten Years, “The Wheat Industry”, for N.C.R.M. Convention 1968; Ballarat Convention 1968, recommendations, statistical papers; notes and calculations.

Dates

  • 1968-1969
  • box-folder: 19-13 (Mixed materials)

Repository details

Part of the Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria Repository

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