GIGANTIC DUST BOWL
NORTH-WEST NEW SOUTH WALES DANGER OF DROUGHT LOSSES SYDNEY, July 30. The entire-north-west of New South Wales with few exceptions was described by stockmen of Narrabri, Gunnedah and Moree today as a gigantic dust bowl. Heavy loss of stock and the complete failure of the wheat crop are threatened.
Because of the coal shortage insufficient railway trucks are available to transport starving stock to the green pastures of the Riverina, which have been saved by light rains, or to take sufficient fodder into the drought areas. Farmers believe it is now too late to save crops or sow new ones.
Four-fifths of the New South Wales wheat crop will fail unless rain falls soon, according to an official of the Department of Agriculture. He said that 4,000,000 acres of crops were in a critical condition and of 5,000,000 acres only 1,000,000 at the most could be considered promising. At least two inches of rain wel’e required within the next fortnight to save the situation’.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 July 1946, Page 9
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