Losses Through Drought.
STOPPAGE OP MAIL COACHES. Messrs Cobb and Co., the contractors for carrying mails in the interior, notified the Federal Government that they were compelled through drought to stop the carriage. For a long lime they have been carrying at a great loss. The Federal Government refused to make an. easement of the terms. Consequently Cobb and Co. last Saturday stopped running the coaches. Pour thousand miles of road are affected, and postal communication and passenger traffic thereon is completely stopped. Traffic in the interior is paralysed, and there are prospects of a famine in the outlying districts. The effects of the drought are apparent from the fact that Cobb . and Co.’s feed account this year was £BO,OOO. is iltiOOO.
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Manawatu Herald, 15 May 1902, Page 2
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122Losses Through Drought. Manawatu Herald, 15 May 1902, Page 2
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