DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA
GREAT UNEASINESS CAUSED RELIEF BY' THE GOVERNMENT BIG LOSSES OF STOCK Unites Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrlsm SYDNEY, May ig Drought conditions in New South Wales, excepting on the coast, stili persist and are causing great uneasiness. As a result, the Government is offering to provide relief for farmers and owners of stock. Reports bv Government officers indicate that appalling mortality among sheep and cattle is inevitable in the winter in all the pastoral and wheat country. In then orth-west and most of the Southern Riverina districts there is not a blade of grass or herbage. The water shortage is acute and livestock is being hand-fed. The outlook for winter lambing was never so bad- Tile prospects of a good wheat harvest are negligible. The position over most of Victoria is much Hie same, but it is more hopeful in South Australia.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20502, 19 May 1938, Page 9
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144DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20502, 19 May 1938, Page 9
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