SERIOUS OUTLOOK
DROUGHT IN NEW SOUTH WALES APPALLING STOCK LOSSES IN PROSPECT GOVERNMENT OFFERING RELIEF By .Telegraph.—Press Association, Copyright. SYDNEY, May 18. Drought conditions in New South Wales, excepting the coast district, still persist, causing great uneasiness, and resulting in the Government offering to provide relief for farmers and stockowners Reports by Government officers indicate that an appalling mortality among sheep and cattle is inevitable during the winter in all pastoral and wheat country. In the north-west and most of the southern Riverina districts there is not a blade of grass or herbage. There is an acute water shortage and live stock is being hand fed. The outlook for winter lambing has never been so bad, and the prospects of a good wheat harvest are negligible. The position over most of Victoria is much the same, but it is more hopeful in South Australia.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 May 1938, Page 7
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144SERIOUS OUTLOOK Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 May 1938, Page 7
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