DROUGHT-STRICKEN.
(QUEENSLAND’S SORRY PLIGHT.
MILLIONS OF SHEEP LOST
New Zealand farmer* may have their troubles, but they are, at any rate, spared many that afflict their brethren in other countries. As a result of the drought in Queensland it is estimated that between 7,000,000 and •8,000,000 sheep have- been lost. Mr John Barr, general manager of the State station* reports that never in his 43 years’ experience (has he seen the country in such bad shape. Rain has fallen in some localities, but the whole of the qrea of the central west and north-west to about 50 miles north of Winton remains unrelieved. A commission of Queensland members of Parliament recently returned from an investigation of conditions in the west, and. they state that 170,000 square miles (over one and a half times the area, of New Zealand) are still drought-stricken. The manager of the Australian Estates and Mortgage Co. recently assessed the total loss t,o the State at around £12,000,000. When thedrought ends the great problem will be to re-stock the areas from which the stock has vanished.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5167, 19 August 1927, Page 1
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179DROUGHT-STRICKEN. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5167, 19 August 1927, Page 1
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