DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA.
RAIN IN THE EAST. By Telegraph.—Press Assn Copyrlslit. Sydney, Dec. 3. Further heavy rains have fallen in the eastern part of the State and there are indications of an extension of the rain to the far west. ! The Government meteorologist states that he has reason to believe that the drought will be broken this month and that it will be followed by good supplementary rains. Rains of a monsoonal character of over six inches have fallen in some coastal districts. In a few dry areas over two inches have fallen and, in the wheat areas, with few exceptions, there have been good falls, but the crops will not benefit to the same extent as if the rain had been weeks earlier. Received Dee. 3, 10.15 p.m. Sydney, Dee. 3. The Assembly ha* passed the Farmers' Drought Bill.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19191204.2.57
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1919, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
140DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA. Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1919, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in