AN AUSTRALIAN DROUGHT.
Mlt. \VKA(i(iK'S I'RKDK'TIOX. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, irraay. Sir. Wragge's prediction vl a drought m Australia, referred to in a Melbourne cablegram, was wired from Australia. Mr. Wragge says (hat Australia is grndI ually again evolving drought condi--1 lion's, hut ii had season there is yet to conic. It is only just beginning there, he says, and you may expect that the general delieiency of rain will be getting worse and worse during Die nest few years. Hut it is not to be expected that it will be so bad as the hist big drought of WOO to 11103. .Hush fires, it will he seen, have already commenced, and tlu' probabilities arc that in New Zealand the general temperature will also be somewhat above the average for the next few years. Hut this eounU" cannot, by reason of its position, have J such extremes as Australia.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 319, 9 January 1909, Page 2
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149AN AUSTRALIAN DROUGHT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 319, 9 January 1909, Page 2
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