DROUGHT HAVOC
AMONGST S. AFRICAN FARMERS.
SOME ARE NOW FACING RUIN.
(Australian Press Association),
MELBOURNE, July 26.
According to a letter received from South Africa by Senator Guthrie, the conditions there are now desperate, owing to a prolonged drought. The loss of sheep has reached quite twelve millions.
Men of wealth a few years ago are now ruined.
In South Africa, farms are now being sold at the rate of one shilling per morgen. , The morgen equals one and a-half acres.
The dairy cattle are unsaleable, and feed for stock is unprocurable.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1933, Page 5
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