DROUGHT IN N.S. WALES
HEAVY STOCK LOSSES [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] SYDNEY, May 18. Drought conditions persist in New South Wales, except on the coast, causing great uneasiness. The Government has offered to provide relief for farmers and stock owners. Reports by Government officers indicate that an appalling mortality among sheep and cattle is inevitable in the winter in all pastoral country. In the north-west and most of the southern Riverina districts there is not a blade of grass or herbage. There is an acute shortage of water, and live stock are being hand fed. The outlook for winter lambing has never been so bad. Prospects of a good wheat harvest are negligible. Most of Victoria is in much the same condition, but the outlook is more hopeful in South Australia.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 May 1938, Page 9
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