THE AUSTRALIAN DROUGHT.
The Auckland Herald offers an excellent suggestion to the Mackenzie Cabinet. is that it should make every possible effort to open land and to advertise in Australia the settlement opportunities thus afforded by New Zealand. Our contemporary points out that if past experience is to he relied upon the Commonwealth has exhausted its seven fat years, and is entering upon another of those often-repeated cycles of drought which prevent its States from becoming the most advantageous and most prosperous of the lands open to Europeans. There are largß areas in Australia where suitable conservation and irrigation works will ultimately enable millions of settlers to regard drought with equanimity, but little has yet been done in this direction, and much land has been occupied which cannot he irrigated, and which cannot be held in harsh seasons. In the greater part of New Zealand, on the other hand, we have an abundant and never-failing rainfall—those "droughts" which are occasionally spoken of here having no relationship whatever to the deadly water famine as known in Australia.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 283, 27 May 1912, Page 4
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176THE AUSTRALIAN DROUGHT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 283, 27 May 1912, Page 4
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