AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3464, 19 April 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

DROUGHT CONDITIONS IN I ' AUSTRALIA, : OUTLOOK GLOOMY. Received 8.45 .m. SYDNEY, This Day. Official reports show that dough! conditions continue in ' the ' western districts, "the north-west plains and slopes, parts of ‘the Riverina country and southwest slo-pes, where the re-_ ‘cent rains were insuNcient to relieve the situation. Crops are largely a failure, herbage scant,‘ and much hand-feeding is necessary, There have been heavy‘ losses of stock. Ploughing has been delayed, and the outlook for the winter is gloomy unless there are good rains soon. In other districts, particularly coastal, crops and other conditions are generally favourable. . ' Received 10.35 a.ln. SYDNEY, this day. Arrived: At. six o’clock, M-aheno. Commercial aviation has advanced another step in Australia by the completion of the, flight of an Avr-o machine with a passenger from Melbourne to Sydney in nine hours. The machine returns with another passenger. ' A meeting of the Government Service Women’s Federation decided to urge the Government to establish -a Board of Women to determine a basic wage for Women throughout the Commonwealth, MELBOURNE, this day. Arrived: Kauri, from New Zealand. The building trade employees rejected the proposal to resume work on the basis of a forty-four hour week, refusing to return unless forty hours concession was granted. The employers decided to institute a lookout, and place an embargo on the supply of building materials to all inaster-build-