AUSTRALIAN HARVEST. SYDNEY, Last Night.
The roport cf the Government statist shows the yield of wheat for the present season to be 5.1 bushels per acre ; the total amount of yield being 1,540,000 bushels. This leaves a deficiency of 5,750,000 bushels on the average for the last 27 years'. The drought entails a loss in cereals of £900,000. The require-* ments oE the Colony are estimated as 8,1 00,000 bushels, leaving a deficiency of 6,560,000. Victoria and South Australia, it is estimate), haveonly 4,600,000 bushels for export, and therefore New South Wales and Queensland (which latter Colony has also to import port of its flour) "will have to look to New Zealand, and probably America, to make gooa the deficiencies.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 348, 6 March 1889, Page 2
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120AUSTRALIAN HARVEST. SYDNEY, Last Night. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 348, 6 March 1889, Page 2
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