AUSTRALIAN FARMERS
“WORSE OFF THAN IN N.Z.” MR, H. S. S. KYLE’S OPINIONS Fro Our Resident Reporter WELLINGTON. Tod%y. In the opinion of Mr. H. 55. S. Kyle* M.P, who returned yesterday from A tour of Australia lasting six weeks, Australian farmers are from 25 to 30 per cent, worse off than New Zealand farmers as the result of the drop in produce prices. Further, Mr. Kyle considers that New Zealand farmers have nothing to learn from Australia. During his stay in Australia Mr. Kyle attended the Sydney Royal Show and when In Adelaide he visited the Waite Institute, which is similar to tho Cawthron Institute at Nelson. The conditions.from Adelaide to Perth, he said, were deplorable. The farms seemed to be nothing but red sand. The farmers had drilled in wheat seed and were waiting for rain. From Sydney to Melbourne there was surprisingly little stock to be seen. Victoria, especially, had experienced one of the driest seasons for years. Many of the farmers had given up wheat-growing, although there was an attempt to extend the growing of grain in South Australia and Western Australia, but it was hazardous trying to grow wheat with ar. annual rainfall of lOin.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 988, 3 June 1930, Page 1
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