EFFECTS OF DROUGHT
ON COUNTRY’S PRODUCTION j AUSTRALIA’S PROSPERITY j LITTLE AFFECTED AN INTERESTING EXPLANATION MELBOURNE, Dec. 10. According to Mr Hunt, Common wealth Meteorologist. investigations by the weather bureau tend to show that the drought menace no longer* affects Australia’s prosperity, the total production of the country now being nearly independent of departures | from normal rainfall. A graph has been prepared showing , that the drop in productivity in sym- ! pathy with sub-normal rainfall was I formerly very marked. In re.eent I years, however, the sympathetic, de* | cline has been decreasing until it ap- ! pears that the stage has been reached where the drought produced no corresponding reaction in the total production. The reasons for this were that Australia is becoming more and more a factor in tin* world’s supply of food and wool, and when crops are small, ! owing to unfavourable seasons foreign i demands bring inflated prices. Second-1 ly, localised droughts were absorbed ! in the general total production of Aus- j tralia. which more than counter-balanc-ed them.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19721, 11 December 1926, Page 8
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