AUSTRALIA
. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) COLD AND WET. SYDNEY, June 19. Extreme cold ‘in the western districts is causing heavy losses to sheep breeders. One landowner alone has had seventeen hundred newly-shorn sheep frozen to death. MELBOURNE, June 19. Heavy rain is falling over nearly the whole State, breaking the drought. ADELAIDE, June 19. Rain is falling over the whole of the northern agricultural areas of South Australia. PREMIERS’ CONFERENCE. MELBOURNE, June 19. At the Premiers’ Conference, Mr. Lang accepted the Commonwealth road agreement, which provides building roads and Federal grants, involving an expenditure of £20,000,000, of Commonwealth funds, spread over ten years. After the meeting, which was in camera, Mr Bruce stated that now there was every prospect of a unanimous agreement to all the Commonwealth financial proposals, Mr Lang having indicated a willingness to give way on a number of important details.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 June 1927, Page 5
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