DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA.
'The drought in New South Wales is far more .serious than reoent cable' 'messages have led ais to believe. A 'Sydney resident, writing to .a friend ■in Auckland, isays: "This drought is a terribly cruel visitation. It is going, to 'have a .bad reaction on business in (Sydney. Stock are daily being sold up country at a twentieth part jof •what they would .have realised- two 'imoriths ago: : 'Even the Vabbitis'' 'are' .dying (through the absolute lacfeof anyr kind of sustenance. The drought is' far worse than the newspapers allow. In isome districts it is quite as .bad as in the great drought of a few years 'ago, and ruin stares hundreds in the !face who, rthree mouths ago, were "counted 'prosperous. Almost the only bird life .visible is the crow, which attacks the isheep ..the moment they arc down, picking out the eyes of the unfortunate animals. A Sew days ago I saw \sold in Sydney hay at just on £lO a ton. The shortage of fodder is 'quite abnormal, and testifies to the burnt uo condition, of immense areas. I
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10645, 29 May 1912, Page 4
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185DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10645, 29 May 1912, Page 4
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