AUSTRALIAN DROUGHT.
STRIKE OF COBBS’ COACHES.
MAIL TRAFFIC STOPPED ON 4000 MILES OF ROAD.
FEARS OF A FAMINE.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Brisbane, May 12.
Messrs Cobb, the well-known contractors for carrying mails in the interior, have notified the Federal Government that they are compelled through drought to stop the carriage of the mails. For a long time thoy have been carrying on at great loss. Tho Federal Government refused to make an agreement as to terms; consequently Cobbs’ last Saturday stopped running tho coaches. Four thousand miles of road are affeotod.
Postal communication and passenger traffic thereon have been completely stopped. Trade in the interior is paralysed. There are prospects of a famine in the outlying districts. The effects of the drought are apparent in the fact that Cobbs’ feed account this year was thirty thousand. Normally it is sixty thousand (?.)
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 414, 13 May 1902, Page 2
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