NEW SOUTH WALES'S GRAIN REQUIREMENTS.
WELLINGTON, March 18. Mr M'Coghlan, the Government statist of New South Wales, has furnished the Presn Association with advance sheets of the tables attached to his report, upon which the deficit in wheat is calculated. They show that that colony has never produced more than 5,868,344 bushels, while this year the yield is only estimated at 1,573,000 bushels. The mean consumption of ten years is 6.7 bushels per head, showing that 7,424,000 bushels will be wanted in 1883". To the difference between the two amounts must be added 562,000 for seed, which j;ivcß an estimated dcliciency of 6,413,000 bushels.
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Evening Star, Issue 7860, 18 March 1889, Page 2
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104NEW SOUTH WALES'S GRAIN REQUIREMENTS. Evening Star, Issue 7860, 18 March 1889, Page 2
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