SHORTAGE OF WATER
Dry Summer In New South Wales SYDNEY, Marell 7. The Government Meteorologist says that Sydney and the centra) coast di<1 riels of New Soul 11 Wales have experienced one of the driest summers on record. All reservoirs supplying tincity are at a dangerously low level. Government, ollicitils report Unit the Hunter River in Hie north lias ceased to flow, that the Macquarie River at Bathurst is “bone dry,” and tile domestic supply at Kiama, on the south coast, is exhausted. Arrangements are being imide to cart water. .Several townships in the Blue Mountains are gravely affected by a shortage of drinking waler. The Murrumbidgee River. in the south, is at a low level, causing concern among inhabitants depending on it fur. domestic ami irrigation supplies. ■ ■ ■ ’ -
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 141, 9 March 1940, Page 9
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128SHORTAGE OF WATER Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 141, 9 March 1940, Page 9
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