DROUGHT STRICKEN AUSTRALIA.
AND NEW ZEALAND FODDER.
By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.
MELBOURNE, April 24. Mr Fuller moved the adjournment of the House to urge the necessity of suspending the duty on fodder to give farmers and pastoralists facilities for keeping stock alive. He suggested that - supplies could be drawn from New Zealand. Members gave terrible accounts of the drought, especially in New South Wales. Despite large sums being spent on hand feeding, thousands of stock are dying, and settlers are being ruined. Mr Kingston sympathised with the farmers, but even at the present time the export of fodder was, he said, going on in some of the States. It could be retained to meet the situation. Tlie Federal Government had no power to suspend the duty. The States ought to deal with the matter'
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 399, 25 April 1902, Page 2
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