Tweed Daily/Daily News

24Jan49: Dairying an old man’s industry. Sons going elsewhere.
29Jan49: Mr Anthony: I believe in white Australia. + communists
5Feb49: Need for immigrant settlers on cane farms.
12Feb49: 625 Italian migrants for QLD + Last year 50% SE Qld banana production marketed Sydney
15Feb49: Over 100 unemployed Murbah +Banana plantations reverting to grazing.
18Feb49: Editorial: Immigrants from Italy.
22Feb49. Naturalization boom. 10 foreigners so far this year Murbah. 200 un-naturalized in district, mainly Greeks, Italians and Balts.
26Feb49: Farewell to Roy Armstrong, BGF chairman. Gino Pagura only alien present.
14Mar49: No compromise on White Australia – RSL Chief. + 40 English migrants in Murbah. All sponsored by locals. Many more expected next 3mths.
30Mar49: Qld banana production one fifth of NSW.
16Mar49: Mullum RSL on ‘red’ alert. (+14May49 RSL general commie position)
27Apr49: Govt Employment Officer Murbah receives applications to employ 136 male and 28 female migrants. Won’t be employed in jobs that could be filled by Australians. Woman will become domestics. Males mainly bananas, sugar and dairy. People who apply must provide accommodation. Migrants are those sponsored by Govt who must undertake to work 2yrs for Govt and go where told.
14May49: Young people leaving Murbah. No work or social opportunities
25May49: All aliens again ordered to Register. All registered aliens to notify change of abode, occupation or employment.
4Jun49: More than 50 Italians will arrive on the North Coast within 2mths. In the past 18mths the total for the district has exceeded 100.
17Jun49: First of New Nationalisation Ceremonies. Court House naturalization of Peter Pizimolas.
22Jun49: Within 18mths 300 people will be able to build on land which less than a year ago was ‘swamp’ at Southport.
14/25Jul49: Giant flying fox erected Blue Knob.
16Jul49 and 6Aug49: Murbah’s Anti-Red Month. RSL sponsored.
9Aug49: Anti Communist meeting Mullum.
10Aug49: Terms ‘Balt’, ‘Reffo’ and ‘D.P.’ now banned.
23Aug49: Immigration Policy Debated by High School Students. (Adjudicator awards marginal win to opponents of White Aust)
19Sep49: Understanding Our New Australians.
22Sep49: New Australians big help in Tweed cane harvest. 49 of 216 cutters were new ockers.
14Oct49: Obligation on Foreigners. Magistrate says all foreigners should learn English asap.
17Nov49: Crabbes Creek/Macedonian arsenic case.
3Dec49: Communist Senate candidate chased out of town.
13Dec49: Drift to city continues
17Dec49: Most of 46 Lebanese, all from village of Kfarsghab, will work Tweed cane fields

1Feb50: New ALP branch formed Murbah
4Feb50: 30 case mills operating Tweed – greatest number ever.
6Feb50: Tweed primary production stats for 1949.
14Feb50: Spirit of Despair in Dairying.
21Feb50: Drift of youth to cities.
25Feb50: Beach mining stats.
4Mar50: 12 migrants Tweed now ‘free agents’ after completing Govt contracts
19Apr50: Opening of Macedonian Hall.
2Jun50: Not many New Australians on the Tweed are changing their foreign sounding names to something more Australian. Commonwealth Employment Officer.
4Jul50: Chamber of Commerce reformed. Went defunct 1948
6Sep50: Sarbin house Dunbible destroyed by fire
15Sep50: Migrant cane cutters trouble makers – Lismore/Wardell RSL
18Sep50: Murbah RSL opposes motion of Tabulum sub branch ‘that the number of Italians, including former POWs, being brought to Aust be viewed with alarm….. he said it was the leagues policy to oppose such moves, and that the policy should be supported
20Sep50: All migrants not trouble makers. Cane growers give finger to RSL.
28Sep50 5yr plan for 25,000 Dutch per year.
5Oct50: ‘League of Nations’ Case. Dunbible altercation.
10Oct50: Italians and Our Language. Blame ‘not all on our side’. Brisbane. M.R. Annand, Aliens Assimilation Officer
1Nov50: 4 new Australian cane cutters leave work Environ and liable for fines.
6Dec50: Contrast in Australian and European Ways. Harold Lipping, Estonian engineer addresses Murbah Rotary.
7Dec50: Mr A.R. Westman, Tweed District Employment Officer says another 200 new ockers could be absorbed easily on the Tweed. Women and Couples arriving. +22 Polish cane cutters leave for Clarence.
23Dec50: 15,000 Italians to arrive next 5yrs.
28Dec50: British migrants sponsored by RSL leaving rural areas. – Brisbane.

16Jan51: 15,000 Italians to arrive in year.
21Jan51: 134 new ockers to Tweed. 96 successfully completed last cane season. A number to stay in district and engaged in dairying and bananas.
26Jan51: 200 new ockers for Richmond cane farms.
1Feb51: Mullum’s rapid expansion. Building Stats
2Feb51: Australians losing heads in unparalleled prosperity.
5Feb51: Main St Murbah land values
28Feb51: Editorial Germans as Immigrants.
6Mar51: War gratuities paid out.
9Mar51: Biggest building boom since war. Tweed Shire.
10Mar51: Murbah sewerage started
21Mar51: Protest over Murbah rates increase
12Apr51: Mr Murphy, Chairman of BGF, has some issues with New Australians. 
19Apr51: Letter from ‘New Australian’ responding to BGF Chairman’s comments
30Apr51: Anthony trounces Bryen Fed Election. (Alex Bryen, born 1920 Murbah, moved Lismore ~1945 to become secretary-organiser of the North Coast sub-branch of the Labor Party. Became alderman 1953. President of Lismore Workers Club 1954. Moved Warwick 1960.)
15May51: Will Get to Grips With Reds. Mr Anthony at declaration of poll Lismore.
26Jun51: Decline in bananas continues.
10Jul51: 160 arrive to cut cane, mostly new ockers. 76 cutters short.
20Jul51: Fingerprint all migrants.
3Aug51: Another 12 cane cutters from Bonegilla.
11Sep51: Rock thrown Anthony MHR Coolangatta during anti-communism speech
24Sep51: Tweed votes 1992 to 328 to ban communist party, but Mr Anthony upset about no vote Australia-wide. All Richmond centres vote yes – 2 to 1. Strongest yes vote in Australia.
6Dec51: Tweed Shire finances desperate.

8Feb52: Migrant labour for Tweed – mainly Dutch and Italian.19Mar52: Migrant farm workers for Tweed.
1,10,17Apr52: 20 Italians for Tweed dairy farms
15Apr52: Editorial Australia needs British migrants.
2May52: The New Australian’s greatest disability in becoming an Australian is his name.
11May52: Richmond Senate Election results
6May52: House migrants in prefabs.
22May52: 7 Italians arrive Richmond.
27May52: RSL. …All young new Australians undergo compulsory service of a non military nature.
6Jun52: 25 migrants working Tweed dairy farms
6Sep52: Suicide of Rumanian immigrant. Hopkins Creek.
8Sep52: Tweed-Brunswick District Council RSL wants stricter controls new Australians. …that New Australians who had adopted Australia as their new home should be forced to speak the English language in public and that they should be denied privileges denied to the native Australians… and other stuff
15Sep52: Editorial. Onus in Assimilation of New Citizens.
18/24Sep52: Protest letters from New Australians re RSL.
25Sep52: Tweed Shire rejects formation of New Settler’s league.
29Sep52: Letter. Mr Tarlington responds for RSL
4Oct52: Letter. Mr Sleigh explains words he used about New Australians at RSL meeting.
6Oct52: Rotary sponsors Good Citizen’s Week. + Editorial Our Responsibilities as Citizens.
11Oct52: 818 Italians want jobs.
31Oct 52: Italian newcomers in city riot. No work.
15Nov52: New Settler’s League at Mullumbimby
19Nov52: Murbah Rotary to Give Lead on Settler’s League. + District employment officer says 700 migrants now permanently on Tweed.
21Nov52: Tweed jobs for Italians, mostly northern Italy.

10Jan53: 750 migrants now Tweed.
4Feb53: Two New Australians Mullum nominated by New Settlers League for course Grafton. Sponsored by Rotary Brisbane.
16Feb53: Stephens returned unopposed Byron, but biggest upset 20yrs was defeat of sitting County Party members Lismore and Casino in favour of new County Party blood.
19/21Mar53: Plan to bring 100 Italian families to Richmond-Tweed.
23Mar53: Murbah Rotary on goodwill to migrants
4/6/9/10Apr53: Murbah Rotary and New Settlers’ League
9Apr53: Letter from Doug Anthony. Over the past three weeks we have read in this paper plans for establishing a large number of Italian families on the Tweed-Richmond areas…. During this period I have waited for some retaliation concerning the scheme, but the only opposition expressed came from Lismore Chamber of Commerce, apparently an organisation with more initiative and forethought in this matter than any on the Tweed…. He was concerned about more growers exacerbating the current glut… I only hope that a few other Australians will voice their opposition to a scheme with such little merit.
9Apr53: Editorial Onus to Show Interest in Newcomers. + New Settlers League.
14/17/18Apr53: RSL Objects to Migrant Proposal. Plan to bring 100 Italian families.
18Apr53: Coffs BGF attack plan to bring Italian families. + BGF general manager.
22Apr53: Long letter from C.T. Grant. Unfortunate Prejudice Against Kindred Races. (And credits Angelo Nardi with originating 1926 Paterson Scheme for dairy industry?)
25/30Apr/12Jun53: Fire Zakas house Crabbes Creek.
11May53: Tweed BGF criticise Italian family plan. + shaky dairy industry
13/15May53:  Murbah RSL ditto
16May53: Mr Murphy, Chairman of BGF, opposes ‘Italians or others’
25May53: Migrant girls do not prefer Australian men
27May53: Mr Hack, general manager BGF, opposes Italians
28May53: Lismore Peace Committee sending Charles Molyneaux to conference Bucharest, Rumania.
29May53: Italian Legation advises BGF no plan for settlement of Italian migrants in banana industry.
30May53: Coronation Day – Organisers Want New Australians.
27Jun53: Rev R.L. Edwards pres of Murbah New Settlers League
3Jul53: New Settlers League. +92 migrants for Richmond canefields + 12 ‘abos’
7/8/9/10/11Jul53: Crabbes Creek Inquest. (+SMH 8/9/10/11Jul, Northern Star 7/8/9Jul)
16Jul53: Tweed a ‘League of Nations’. Tweed District Commonwealth Employment Officer says predominant race was Greek.
15/26/28Jul53: English classes for migrants.
29Jul53: First social New Settlers League
30Jul53: Gang of 10 Italians paid off Tygalagah after refusing to cut small cane.
31Jul53: 7 Italians cause unrest on North Coast Express as it left Murbah. Passengers objected to sharing compartments.
5Aug53: Editorial must make migrants welcome
12Sep53: ‘Little Italys’ not planned + Naturalization ceremonies now Town Hall + Rotary Civic Week Twin Towns.
17Sep53: Plan to bring Dutch families to Aust. Only 4% of 700,000 migrants last 4yrs settled rural areas.
24/25Aug/8/16Sep53: Ithacan earthquake
17Sep53: Tweed Heads boasts Australia’s first motel.
21Sep53: Migrant English classes
3Oct53: Jack Sattler, vice-pres Murbah New Settlers League, article on assimilation.
9Oct53: Migrants made focus of Civic Week Murbah.
20/21Nov53: New Settlers League social
25Nov53: Foreign newspapers stocked by Murbah newsagents.
28Nov53: BGF headquarters building opened Murbah

17Feb54: Murbah population stats
20Feb54: Death of Mr F.W. Stuart
26Feb54: Worst cyclone in memory. 50% plantations wiped out. Byron Bay fishing fleet destroyed.
15Mar54: Murbah New Settlers League to feature in a Melbourne women’s mag
29Mar54: New Australian Makes Good. Milan Tranj sponsored to Gatton Ag college by Rotary
7Apr54: New Settlers Naturalized in Civic Way.
22Apr54: Record price banana land. Tony Steve Crabbes Crk
7May54: Anthony MHR elected unopposed.
2Jun54: Census takers have cards printed in German, Italian, Maltese, Yugoslav and Polish. No Greek?
7Jul54: Editorial White Australia Tag Must be Buried.
6Aug54: Jack Sattler re-elected pres New Settlers. + Southport MLA gives lecture on communism to migrants he’d just naturalized.
7Aug54: Nick Angus addresses Greek canecutters.
17Aug54: Education and Assimilation of New Australians.
8Sep54: Only three Greeks remain of 72 original canecutters
2/4/12Oct54: Greek Cutters Not Given ‘Fair Go’
27Oct54: 52 German and 3 Austrian cane cutters arrive. Lets hope they are more successful than the Greeks.
11Nov54: ‘Wives and Children Hungry’ – Migrants Make Complaint. German cane cutters.
19Nov54: All Italians on Crabbes Crk School Committee + Pub closing referendum results – Byron electorate wants to retain 6pm.
6Dec54: Visit by State Sec of New Settlers League. + State of emergency declared for cane harvest.
10Dec54: Murbah house building picks up. Stats since 1947. Actually been on decline since peak year 1948 (538 building applications)
12Dec54: More Rigid Migrant Screening. Mullum RSL write to Mr Anthony
16Dec54: Editorial praising New Settlers League. + Naturalizations and League xmas party.
22Dec54: New Settlers League arrange for war orphanes to spend xmas hols with various families.
29Dec54: Letter from ‘Inga’ publicly thanking New Settlers League

2Feb55: Editorial What is the Australian Way of Life.
3Feb55: Greeks, Italians ‘Lag in Learning English’ said Murbah Commonwealth Employment Officer.
8Mar55: Australians New and Old Must Each Extend a Hand. Jack Sattler addresses Apex.
21Apr55: BGF plans to enter retail trade
29Apr55: Macedonians reorganise MAPL to MAFL. Membership Grafton to border. + Editorial Migrant’s language Problem.
6Jun55: New Settlers League meetings average 50 attendees. Mr Anthony MHR and Mr Stephens MLA now patrons.
7Jun55: Joe Papajcsik addresses Murbah Rotary after sponsorship to Gatton.
15Jun55: Free Classes in English for New Australians. To be re-established
19Aug55: New Settlers League coordinating migrants in national dress for Tweed Valley Carnival
29Aug55: 120 attend Murbah New Settlers League meeting. Mainly newly arrived Italian cane cutters. Dancing, singing etc.
29Sep55: Dr Vashelli, migrant counsellor at Italian Legation Sydney, to come and address cane cutters Tweed.
6Oct55: Letter from ‘Ingo’ (German migrant) publicly thanking church groups and their role in New Settlers League
8Oct55: Naturalization ceremony. Josef Papajcsik now playing big role.
13Oct55: Of 113 Italian cane cutters who came to Tweed cane fields at beginning of season only 7 left. Pay cheques averaged £20/wk. All happy. They have 2yr contract with Aust Govt and have to go where directed
19Oct55: Off season employment of Italians. 80 at present Tumbulgum.

4Jan56: Sale of Chinese Bamboo Café record Coolangatta.
18Jan56: Migrant crime rate well below Australian
20Jan56 Editorial Law-Abiding Behavior of Migrants.
24Jan56: Public welcome Mrs Kiratsa Armenakis.
13Mar56: Photo and article Tsakalos/Ylias wedding
7Apr/9Jul56: Banana production record
11Apr56: Mullum seeks Dutch migrants
1Jun56: High prices rutile and boom in sand mining stocks. SE Qld and N E NSW produce 90% of world’s rutile.
10Jun56: SEQld building boom
7Sep56: Italian suicide inquest. Despair at being unable to communicate.
4/10Sep56: 16 Naturalizations. Messrs Anthony and Stephens present.
26Sep56: 12yr old Christina Armenakis public welcome
31Oct56: Paruga Pres Good Neighbour Council Mullum
20Dec56: Hungarian Relief Appeal.
24Dec56: Public farewell to Jack Sattler. 150 attend Good Neighbour Council xmas party.

17Jan57: Migrants being ripped off in farm sales.
4Feb57: Crabbes Creek gets electricity
16Mar57: Macedonian Dance Troup Tweed Banana Festival.
4Apr57: Good Neighbour Parties ‘Only Social Life for Some New Australians.
1Jul57: First issue Daily News. + Naturalization ceremony
2Jul57: Editorial on naturalization
4Jul57: Nil unemployment Coolangatta/Tweed Heads – boom tourists/sandmining/building.
8Jul57: 12 naturalizations. Cr Lundberg, Pres Tweed Shire, and Joe Papajcsik. + Editorial on Assimilation. + Zigalas shooting.
9Jul57: Merchant Scheme for marketing bananas approved for another 12mths by Min for Ag. Richmond Banana Co-op in opposition to BGF.
12Jul57: H.L. Anthony dies ….for a number of years the largest grower of bananas in the commonwealth…
15Jul57: New Industry Develops. Angus Bros and macadamias.
16Jul57: Zigalas shooting inquest
5Aug57: A.E. Budd resigns Chaiman Good Neighbour Council
6Aug57: Joe Papajcsik addresses Twin Towns Rotary
15/20Aug57: Bruns BGF. New Australians in banana industry
17Aug57: Tweed BGF. Ditto + Flat rate old age pension now £4/7/6
20Aug57: BGF history + Tweed income figures
22Aug57: History of BGF
11/27Sep/9Dec57: Huge drop price of rutile. Companies suspend operations
12Sep57: Returns dairying still trending down
25Sep57: 1954 census showed 1300 people of foreign nationality in Richmond-Tweed region. Tweed Shire had greatest share. Breakdowns given.
31Oct57: Good Neighbour Council
11Nov57: Anthony MHR says dairies returning less than basic wage for 40hr week
29Nov57: Death of A.E. Budd
7Dec57: Must Help Our New Migrant Friends. State executive officer of Good Neighbour Council congratulates Murbah branch.
11Dec57: Editorial on Migrants building nation.

9Jan58: Immigration Dept ‘reeks with deceit’ and Aust ‘fast going foreign’ say British-Australian Assoc.
18/31Jan58: Crabbes Creek Divided by Strong Red Element.
22Jan58: Proposal to abolish dictation test.
23Jan58: AWU claim New Australians breaking awards. + Albert Monk of ACTU says immigration should continue. + Rotary into ‘Bring out a Briton’ scheme
25Jan58: Editorial Migration Plan Must Continue
14Feb58: Bruns BGF. Pagura Scheme
1Mar58: Sir Earl Page wants pop of 30mil by 1975-80 + unemployment rising
11Mar58: Joseph Moubarak in town preparing a history of Lebanese pioneers.
30Apr58: Banana output approaching 4mil cases. + 27 naturalized (and 3May)
2/3May58: Dictation test to go.
5May58: Austrians.
7May58: Italians
9/19May58: Bruns BGF. Alidenes and road tax.
26May58: Conflict Chinese inheritance laws and Aust laws. Murbah Chinese.
4Jun58: Anthony MHR address Mullum Naturalization Mullum
21Jun58: Migrant/Australian marriage stats
23Jun58: Danish migrants
24Jun58: Record Cane crop. First time migrants not specifically allotted as cutters, but 21 local new Australians.
25Jun58: Murbah: Mr Downer advises Australia has begun a new drive to attract more migrants from Scandinavian countries which could bring between 5000 and 6000 here in the coming year…treble the 57-58 intake. First advert had been placed in Danish newspapers and already 1100 replies from prospective migrants had been received.
4Jul58: Govt budgets for first deficit since 1948.
7/10Jul58: Migration restrictions Southern Europeans eased. Family Reunion Scheme + White Australia
16Jul58: Mullum RSL. At odds with Country Party policy on poker machines
26Jul/8Aug/25Sep58: BGF. Continuation of Merchant Scheme to be voted on.
19Jul58: Dannish Consul General opens Mullum show
15Aug58: Mick Theodore, pres of Southport Rotary, welcomes first ‘Bring out a Briton’ family. + New Australians in banana industry Bruns BGF
18Aug58: Dairy farmers increasingly turning to bananas. Industry worst since Depression.
20Aug57: Anthony MHR on Dairy Industry. Income down 32% since 1953
6/8Sep58: Visit of Archbishop Athenagoras. Guest of Nick Angus
30Sep58: Downer on Migration
11Oct58: Mullum Continental Ball + inventive New Australians Tweed (Zdravkovis/ Pavlovich/Trtanj
16Oct58: Murbah Commonwealth Employment Officer on migrants/English again
30Oct58: Mullum BGF. Alidenes unhappy with Merchant Scheme. Wants growers to visit Sydney and oversee agents fixing price.
4/5Nov58: Mick Theodore at Rotary Conference Tweed Heads. + Matteo Bortolucci Main Arm ‘sister village’ relationship
6Nov58 Danish Vice-Consul in town to open show.
17Nov58: £10,000 loss by BGF Sydney shops
24Nov58: Election results. ALPs greatest loss since 1949
2Dec58: Percentage Brit migrants fallen to 37% despite Bring out a Britain Campaign. Average Australian apparently could not care less.

6Jan59: Auction Crown land Bruns a failure.
21Jan59: ‘Operation Jaycee’ to charter special ship to bring out Brits. + More initiatives to attract Brits by Mr Downer. + Sir Macfarlane Burnet wants non-Europeans to improve genetic stock (and 24Jan on White Australia)
24Jan58: Basic wage to rise to £13/15/-
27Jan59: Editorial Bolder Approach for Migrants. Increased subsidies for fares
4Feb59: Rising unemployment and ACTU call for review migrant intake
11Feb59: Southern Europeans increasingly only migrants available
14/20Feb59: Tweed BGF. Alarming glut. Proposal to employ an economist or marketing guru.
7Mar59: 44 naturalizations
14Mar59: Record banana production.
19Mar59: Evangelist Billy Graham cancels decision to attend Bernard Elsey’s pyjama party Beachcomber cabaret.
24Mar59: Tweed BGF call for community meeting re glut and market chaos + Bring out a Briton Scheme.
4Apr59: Quota system proposed for banana growers
16Apr59: Banana industry rivals citrus industry as leading fruit industry NSW
18Apr59: Main Arm CoOp Meat pool folds. Formed 1927. …present period hardest in its 32 years of trading – worst than during the depression years when the going was really tough.
21Apr59: Letter re banana profits and quota scheme
25Apr59: New Mullum United Nations soccer team takes the field.
5May59: Letter re state of industry and quota scheme
11May59: Mullum BGF. Glut and quota scheme
15May59: Article ‘Italians show the way of migrant assimilation.
26May59: 10.4% decline in all primary industries 1957-58. Stats
6/22Jun59: Migrants Playing Big Part in Our Development.
2Jul59: Anthony MHR naturalization ceremony Mullum
9Jul59: Record on share market
11Jul59: Dairy decline
7Aug59: Banana Festival Scenes May be Used to Attract Migrants. Recruiting film for OS.
8Aug59: New Citizens Council urges migrants to boycott AWU. + Editorial Must Retain Flow of New Citizens.
11Aug59: Ditto re AWU + Coolangatta and Tweed Heads zooming along. + White Australia.
12Aug59: BGF evaluate Merchant System v. Agent System. + Andrew Pippos still leading hunt for lion at Mullum Crk.
19Aug59: Sandmining dead. 5 companies suspend operations
13/14/17Nov59: 33 from 8 countries naturalized
31Nov59: Chain stores direct cause of failure of BGF’s retail venture from 3 shops. BGF attempt selling direct to supermarkets.

19Jan60: Building boom Tweed Shire coast.
21Jan60: Bruce Small starts dredging canal developments Surfers Paradise. + Cecil Steve produces biggest ever bunch bananas. + ACTU argue for basic wage of £14/18/-
11Feb60: Migrant children less likely to be deliquents
25Feb60: Kingscliff, Kanakas and sandmining.
2/3Mar60: Declaration of Cook Island opposite Fingal as a nature reserve will frustrate development. Chamber of Commerce.
4/8Mar60: Cabarita/Bogangar development. Conservationists weep.
I0Mar60: Gold Coast Café and Restaurant Owners’ Assoc unite with George Glytsos’ Queensland Café and Caters’ Assoc.
10Mar60: Majority of growers attending Richmond BGF meeting were Italian and a translator employed.
19Mar60: Mr Stephens MLA intervenes so Greenbank Island can be developed.
4Apr60: Tweed Shire withdraws from Evans-Tweed Development Assoc to follow ‘the Gold Coast model’. Cr Lundberg presciently says tourism would one day be the top industry in the Tweed district.
20/25/29Aug60: Huge new valuations Gold Coast. + Minister rejects legislation to control planting

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16Jan50: 100 new houses since end of war
3Feb50: Mullum building stats and property values.
1Mar50: Mullum RSL buys banana plantation
26Apr50: Greek Community’s Tribute to Anzacs.
23Jun50: Mullum improved valuations up 54% since 1949 (maybe meant 1947?)
28Jul50: New Australians Asked to Welcome Governor.
4Dec50: Pascall introduces small crops + Peters/Pippos wedding
13Dec50: Building activity greatest in Mullum’s history.

2Jan51: Pres PPU wants migrants for north coast
16/26Jan51: All Mullum ex-serviceman have repaid resettlement loans. ‘War Service Land Settlement Scheme’ still acquiring farms.
6Feb51: Murbah land values up 100% and other stats
6Apr51: H.L. Anthony acquires banana farm Montecollum
13Apr51: Two page spread by Anthony MHR, almost all on communists (election results 1May51)
20Apr51: Stephens MLA says banana production worth £3,076,460 to NSW coffers. NSW accounts for 78% Aust banana production.
4May51: Mullum Chamber of Commerce try to save 9 acres Maccas planted 20yrs ago by Mr Gaggin Palmwoods.
15Jun51: Left leaning editor Harrison says Chifley did more to keep at bay the cancer of communism than any other leader…
10Jul51: Editor Harrison admonishes growers for lack of conservation.
31Jul51: Jim Brokenshire takes over Star.
5Aug51: Peters addresses Rotary
30Oct51: Presentation to Withers from Greek Community

22Jan52: Building/land transfer stats
4Mar52: Tony Peters addresses Rotary. Sister club relationship with Athens
4Apr52: CES advertising that migrants available for farm work
20May52: Brunswick district 2^nd largest banana growing district Australia
8Jul52: Main Arm gets electricity (29Aug52 – none for upper Main Arm)
11Jul52: Big fall building activity Mullum
11Jul52/22Aug52: Zigalas and Carl Back road accident
21Nov52: Zigalas and Const Fletcher
14Nov52: Formation of New Settlers’ League

9Jan53: Pavlovich’s Nash
20Mar53: Another Zigalas road accident
6May53: BGF opposes migrants. Over-production bananas
15May53: Mullum RSL opposes migrants.
29May53: Italian Govt plan to settle families in abeyance
5Jun53: Coronation celebrations. Mott address. Pacific Islanders sing and dance national dress. Les Black sings There’ll always be an England.
15Jun53: Letter Migrants and over-production
31Jul53: New Citizens’ League function Presbyterian Hall
15/18Aug53: BGF upset over Dept Ag figures showing profitability of banana industry for little outlay.
21/25Aug/3Sep53: Rotary and Ithacan earthquake
6Oct53: Fires all over the place
27Nov53: Letter Apathy Towards Assimilation of New Australians. + Bruns Surf Club erect warning signs different languages.

26Jan54: Protest over new Mullum valuations.
24Mar54: Tony Peters under name Pizimolas sits as JP Mullum Court of Petty Sessions
18Jun/20Aug54: CWA entertains New Australians.
14Sep54: Tony Peters gets award from Rotary district governor
26Oct54: Continental Ball. 450 attend. Biggest function Mullum all year.
26Nov54: New Settlers League Xmas party.

28Jan55: £12,000 BGF store proposed next Commonwealth Bank Burringbar St
8/11Feb55: Move to ban ‘quacks’, ‘professionals’ and ‘speculators’ from banana industry as glut solution. (and 18Mar55)
15Apr/13May55: New Settlers Picnic
29Apr55: Macedonians donate to Mullum Hospital
13May55: BGF retail plan
31May55: BGF still trying to conceal Dept Ag Duranbah figures on profitability.
15Jul55: Opposition to BGF retail plan
5Aug55: Byron Shire decide to give bibles to migrants
13Sep/14Oct55: Appeal to State Govt for aid to growers hit by glut. Alidenes calls new BGF store Mullum ‘white elephant’
16Sep55: RSL give free tobacco and cigarettes to hospital patients.
18Oct55: 300 at New Settlers picnic New Brighton – from Uki, Murbah, Lismore as well as Mullum)
21Oct55: Zigalas and road accident
11Nov55: Bruns BGF. More glut solutions. Pagura Plan rejected. Chamber of Commerce told to butt out (Go hold meetings with Housewives Assoc to encourage banana consumption)
22Nov55: Drift from High School due low banana prices

17Jan56: Abandoned patches increasing bunchy top problem
27Jan56: Mrs Kiratso Armenakis arrives Crabbes Creek through agency local red cross.
10Feb56: Two of three proposed BGF retail stores Sydney opened
17Feb56: Min for Immigration reassures Mullum RSL that migrant checks satisfactory
6/20Apr56: Executive officers of New Settlers’ League get civic reception. + council after loans as rate money insufficient.
13Apr56: Dutch Consul looking to settle Migrant families. Chamber of Commerce point him towards Upper Main Arm.
17Apr/11/22May56: New Settlers’ League annual picnic New Brighton. 500 attend.
11May56: BGF implements new merchant marketing scheme. Pagura lukewarm.
15Jun56: Montecollum to get electricity.
19/22/29Jun56: Opening of new BGF store and new Civic buildings
22Jun56: Mott v. Harrison over unsightly and abominable RSL shed Bruns.
10Aug56: First dissatisfaction rumbles over merchant scheme. + Greek and Italian languages proposed for banana bulletin.
24Aug56: Banana industry provides £6,000,000 ‘spending money’ on the Far North Coast.
16Oct56: 80 men on working bee Main Arm Road.
23Oct56: Crabbes Creek finally forms BGF branch
26Oct/2Nov56: Mullum’s first public naturalization ceremony.
2Nov56: Caponas sells radio and record business and shop rented to a dentist
16Nov56: Pagura misses out on board of directors. + BGF appoints a Public Relations Officer and professional editor of Banana Bulletin
20Nov56: Farmers seek reduction in rural rates in line with reduced earnings dairy industry.

18Jan57: Byron Shire rescinds order to remove awning posts (passed 1951). Businesses doing it hard. + building stats for shire. 2714 dwellings and 772 registered dairies in shire. + Banana patch lessees seek revaluations.
25Jan/15Feb57: Caponas fire Main Arm
12Apr57: Dept Ag inspectors can’t keep up with rapid rate of change in patch ownership. Patch owners have many defaulting lessees.
24May57: Influx of migrants and pop growth putting pressure on hospital. + Hormone and 2,4-D chemicals banana plantations.
11Jun57: No quorum Chamber of Commerce. Talk of disbanding
30Jun57: Production increasing. Tightening up of planting permits.
18Jun57: Mullum RSL joins Bring out a Briton scheme
9/16Jul57: Zigalas shooting accident. + proposal for NRCC to absorb Mullum Electricity Undertaking.
13Aug57: Mullum endorses 27yr old Doug Anthony over F. M. Uren for Country Party (results 27Sep – Anthony wins over 5 opponents)
6Sep57: 5 naturalized Mullum Council Chambers
10Sep57: 1954 census figures on migrants + drift from district effects Bruns Life Saving membership.
17Sep57: Banana growers increasingly diversifying to pinapples
25Oct/26Nov57: First Public Naturalization Ceremony Byron Shire (2 Dutch, 1 Hungarian and 1 Italian). Anthony MHR attends
8Nov57: Stephens MLA says banana industry earned  £6,000,000
12/15Nov57: Bruns BGF. Pagura Plan reconsidered. +No funds for Civic Hall septic system.
29Nov57: Mullum Council can’t afford to motorise and retains draught horse to pull mower. + new valuations.
13/17/20Dec57: Byron Shire request Govt aid to relieve unemployment. + Belongil Harbour scheme to relieve unemployment (to house up to 70 boats)

10Jan58: Absorption of Mullum Elec into NRCC.
14Jan58: Fire Zircon Rutile Ltd. £50,000 damage
17Jan58: Byron Shire in financial trouble and valuations down +600 registered dairies in Shire. + Mullum keeps rates on hold due increased valuations.
21Jan58: Good Neighbour picnic New Brighton
24Jan58: Talk of disbanding Mullum PPU
11Mar58: Money available for district unemployed (BGF want some for roads)
18Mar58: Need for more migrants to make country strong. Mr Anthony MHR naturalization ceremony Mullum. + Reeves family first to arrive Mullum under Bring out a Briton scheme
21Mar58: Byron Shire. Dole Breeding Loafers.
2May58: BGF retail stores now Lismore, Murbah, Burringbar, Coffs, Tweed Heads.
20May58: Byron Shire building applications fall.
3Jun58: Bruns chosen over Belongil as new fishing port. + Mr Anthony again Mullum for naturalization ceremony
6/13/27Jun58: Commissioner rules Electricity Undertaking stays with Mulum.
4Jul/8/22Aug58: Merchant Scheme for banana marketing under review
22Jul58: Byron Bay whale quota now 120 per year.
25Jul58: Golden Beach subdivision approved. Planned for 20,000 permanent population, with a much larger floating population. Motels and resorts and playground for Americans.
29Jul/2Aug58: Danish Consul-General to open show.
15Aug58: Assimilation of Migrants a Big Problem in Banana Industry.
7Oct58: Continental Ball reintroduced after last years cancellation.
3Oct58: Dairy desperation Main Arm. …half of those dairymen are starving if they are depending entirely upon returns from butter. Want money for irrigation scheme Main Arm. Could build Mullumbimby into a flourishing city.
31Oct/11/14Nov58: Mullum sub branch BGF want full disclosure of retail losses Sydney stores.
14Nov58: Sydney agents want higher commissions.
18Nov58: Confidence in merchant system waning
25Nov58: Fed Election results
2Dec58: Norco acquires all Richmond-Tweed interests of dairy proprietary company, Foley Bros, and close down their Mullum butter factory.
19Dec58: Byron Shire increase rates but yields less due drop valuations in rural areas

23Jan59: Rush for crown land blocks Lighthouse Rd Byron Bay.
27Jan59: Decline in building applications Byron Shire.
13Feb59: No minimum price guarantee for bananas in merchant scheme + Evans-Tweed Development Assoc changes name to Northern NSW Tourist Assoc after Tweed withdraws to pursue Gold Coast dream.
20Feb59: Byron Shire finances going from bad to worse.
10Mar59: Glut getting worse.
17Apr59: Byron Shire protests proposal for release crown land Wategos. + new South Golden Beach development proceeds.
5/12/15May/9/19Jun59: BGF debate quota system. + Mullum sewerage scheme
19May59: BGF. We seem to have reached a stage of national emergency in the industry. Proposal to approach NSW and QLD Govts for common legislation to control planting.
15Jun59: Byron Shire rejects pensioner rates rebate
26Jun59: Septic system for Civic centre and public toilets
30Jun59: Naturalization ceremony. Anthony not present.
17Jul59: Mullum soccer teams machinations.
28Jul59: Low banana prices hit bowling club profits
31Jul59: Byron Bay whale kill quota now 150.
21Aug59: Coffs mechanising banana industry
25Aug/1Sep59: Civic reception for Archbishop Iezekiel.
28Aug59: South Golden Beach and drainage of swamps proceeding quickly.
1Sep59: BGF hires Prof Ag Economics UNE to look at distribution and marketing
15Sep59: Cyprus appeal.
9Oct59: Gino Pagura gets onto board of directors BGF
16Oct59: Byron Shire to sell blocks of recalcitrant rate payers. + Mullum Municip acting as a retailer of electrical appliances and carrying out electrical work now drawing protests from the Bay as well as home town.
3Nov59: Women given voting rights Byron Bay bowls club.
17Nov59: Banana solutions. Barrowboys and free distribution to hospitals, orphanages etc.
1/4Dec59: Naturalization ceremony. Mayor does the honours. Speech by Fr O’Byrne on rural land settlement scheme for migrants.
4Dec59: Byron Shire decides not to hand over dairy supervision to Dept Ag.
8Dec59: Public farewell to the Black family Middle Pocket
11Dec59: Tourism to take major roll in North Coast development.

29Jan60: Merchant Scheme under review
16Feb60: BGF want UNE researcher to investigate auctioning of bananas. + PPU want margarine banned from schools
8Apr60: Growers letting fruit rot on plantation floor. +Death of Tom Mott. Selected virgin mountain country Upper Main Arm 1922 and started bananas.
12Apr60: New production record Coffs.
10May60: Forecast of Tragedy in Banana Industry. 70% of spending money Mullum comes from bananas. Subsidy for bona fide growers in industry for at least 5yrs.
13May60: BGF approach minister to set up committee to stabilize industry.
20May60: Mullum sub branch BGF again presses for disclosure of retail losses Sydney
31May60: Apex hosts dinner to praise part migrants playing in community life.
15Jul/5Aug60: Mullum approved to borrow for sewerage scheme and Minister will match with subsidy
17Jun60: Silver Anniversary of Bruns BGF. BGF has 5 district councils, 50 sub branches, 10,292 shareholders and 4492 growers. Mr Anthony MHR said co-operatives were not socialism if they refrained from asking for Government controls
29Jul60: Drift of pupils from High School. Low prices bananas blamed.
2/12Aug60: BGF. Marketing Act proposed to replace/supplement Merchant Scheme. ‘It’s time now for a last resort.’
9Aug60: Mullum Legion of Ex-servicemen assist Macedonian member Nick Sisovich to bring out his family (and 15Aug61)
19Aug60: Grower fined for weedy patch. …banana industry had fallen about 3yrs ago… and no resources left.
6Sep60: Dept Ag discouraging people from banana industry. + Minister rejects BGF plea for control of planting legislation
25Oct60: Quota Club celebrate United Nations Week
1Nov60: BGF issues £20,000 worth of new shares.
4Nov60: More plans to stabilize industry
6Nov60: UNE gurus identify 6 main community problems Mullum (lack of: stability in rural incomes, opportunity for youth,… duh.)
23Dec60: Development in Shire Not up to Expectations. +Watego’s sub-division 

17Jan61: Another production record Coffs. + need for agricultural economists.
10Feb61: Proposal for levy to stabilize industry. Buy back own bananas and subsidise canning industry. + central packing proposal
28Mar61: BGF contracts business consultants for £3000 report on marketing and distribution.