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These files relate to the following policy areas, and subjects: the extension of the Act to milk-producing districts not covered by controlling legislation; quota policies for each district; re-distribution of quotas; granting of quotas; complaints about quotas; quota allocations; disputes between producers; price-fixation and breaches thereof; price-cutting by dairymen; prosecution of companies for dealing in milk and milk products outside the Milk Act; unregistered trading; sale and distribution of inter-state milk; sale of milk substitutes; legal opinions relating to the Board's powers and responsibilities; Royal Commissions and committees of inquiry into the industry; paper and plastic containers; the supply of free milk to schoolchildren; bulk transport of milk; inspection of metropolitan dairies by members of the Board; pollution of Black Creek, Branxton; bacteriological testing and assessment of raw milk; reports by the Board's scientific officers at Sydney University; annual reports; reports of district supervisors; conferences of Australian milk boards; minutes and correspondence of the State Milk Publicity Council; Publicity and advertising; establishment of the New South Wales Dairy Authority; dairy herd improvement programmes; and artificial insemination.Early files relating to agency agreements and guarantees include copies of correspondence relating to, and the minutes of, the meetings which negotiated the original agreements.
One part of the large file (48/187) relates to the Milk Board's annual exhibit at the Royal Agricultural Show; this part file (1962) includes samples of a showbag and some advertising balloons shown to the Board.
(12/13711-51, 12/2165-267). 144 boxes.
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This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.
Created: 1932-01-01 to 1983-12-31
Data time period: 1932-01-01 to 1983-12-31
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