IRISH AFFAIRS
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. Ca)*:,s ASSOCIATION CONDITIONS Us IRELAND. LONDON, January 28. Mr Tim llealy (Governor-General of the Irish Free State), states the conditions in parts of Ireland are worse than during the famine of 1879. The potato crop has been a total failure in Connemara and a partial failure inGalway. Counaught residents are bordering on starvation, and the scarcity of peat which could not be dried owing to the wet season increases their hardships. Hearth fires which were nob extinguished for two centuriespare now out. The Free State Government is sending food and is selling six thousand tons of coal at (id per bag.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1925, Page 3
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106IRISH AFFAIRS Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1925, Page 3
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