THE MACKAY DISASTER.
.SYDNEY, this day. A deputation of Queensland sugar growers told Mr Hughes that the loss of sugar in the MaekftV floods was estimated at £250,000. Mr Hughes promised that the Commonwealth would pay for the quantity destroyed.— (A. and N.Z.) COMMANDEEKING TALLOW. MELBOURNE, this day. A new regulation empowers the Commonwealth to commandeer stof.ks of tallow, the compensation not to exceed £45 per ton.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) N.S.W. STOCK CENSUS. SYDNEY. February 20. Official statistics show that the number of horses in New South Wales on .luue HO last was ":i:5,528, an increase of 14.'2S(> over the previous year. Cattle numbered 2.70r>,707. an increase of 359.----OP7; sheep. :><i,170.7:!0, an increase of 3.579,00]; pigs. 350,780. an increase of 78,622. The area under crops was r>. 166,564 aiM-es, a decrease of 634,1811 acres, compared with the previous June. (A. and X.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 45, 21 February 1918, Page 6
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