Big Sum Allocated To Fight Rabbit Pest
The Estimates presejited to the Ilouse of Representatives last night ineluded £2,122.060 (£1,64:7,791) for the Agricultural Department. As an indication of the intensilication of the campaign to reduce the rabbit meuace, grants to rabbit boards £150,000 (£21,690) and subsidies to rabbit boards of . £1 60,000 (£136,303), are features of tlie individual votes. Other items inc.lude coiupensation for stock eondenined £45,000 (£21,329), and subsidies to cow testing organisat.ions £20,000 .(£20,000). A new iteui is an amount of £13,060 as bursaries to dairy factory workers. Young Parmers' Clubs receive grants, totallinjg £3500 (£3376). Milk "Marketing £321,543 (£196, S37): This is now a separate vote, the main il'em in which is a ' suin of £259,100' ,£158,351) for the purchase and eroction of milk treating houses and i'hcidentals. • The subsidv on wheat to maintain the price of bj'ead and provide an eeonomic return to tlie growers amounts to £2, 21S, 000 (£1,200,000).
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 August 1949, Page 6
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