TOLL OF DROUGHT
Received Monday, 8.0 p.m. SYDNEY, August 5. Drought has killed so much stock in the Moree district, northwest 'New South Wales, that carcases are being piled into heaps and burned. No worthwhile rain has fall'en in the district for ten months. At G-unnedah nine inches of rain has fallen in twelve months. Stock is heing fed where possible hy hand but the railway restrictions are causing losses. Where possible stock is being moved to the Riverina which has fared better.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 August 1946, Page 5
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83TOLL OF DROUGHT Chronicle (Levin), 6 August 1946, Page 5
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