CAPE PARLIAMENT
SHORT SESSION IS INDICATED. (By United Press Association's! Special Representative). (Received this'day at -9.20 a.m.) CAPETOWN, May 27... Parliament was opened hy the Gov-ernor-General with .the usual formalities. His speech indicated a short session to deal with the;Budgeit and urgent measures relating to unemployment,, 'and Widespread ” drought distress. ■
SERIOUS DROUGHT PREVAILS. FROM AFFLUENCE TO, POVERTY. CAPETOWN, May 26. The seriousness of the drought was impressed by ref-erdnoe 1 in speeches at the opening of Parliament. Members tell tragic stories of farmers, affluent three years ago, now being reduced t° Poverty, and subsisting on rations issued by Magistrates. ' The drought affects the Free State, North West Cape and Midlands. The maize crops have been reduced from twenty to nine million hags, none being available for export. It is anticipated that the Government will distribute maize to feed stock. Thousands of sheep have died, and the railway resources have been taxed to their utmost removing stock to pasturages, but isolated are a s are m a hopeless condition.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1933, Page 5
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168CAPE PARLIAMENT Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1933, Page 5
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