£30,000,000 LOSS
CROPS AND INDUSTRY PROTRACTED N.S W. RAINS SYDNEY, Dec. 17. The long spell of wet weather, which began on November 24, has caused losses in New South Wales averaging £1.500,000 daily and totalling £30,000,000. As well as damage to the wheat harvest, it is estimated £20,000,00 have been lost as a result of lowered production of coal, fruit, vegetables and fodder and the disorganisation of building, shipping and rail and road transport. According to a Weather Bureau report, the end of the rain is in sight, but more thunderstorms are predicted before the week-end. In the past three weeks home building has declined by 50 per cent and the coal output by more than 40,000 tons. Wheat and flour ships which should have sailed last Friday will not be able to clear port before late today The only bright spots are that the Sydney water supply is now considered adequate for the summer. The. fire brigades have not attended a single bushflre for 10 days and umbrella retailers, shoe repairers and'taxi drivers have reaped a harvest.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22514, 18 December 1947, Page 7
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178£30,000,000 LOSS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22514, 18 December 1947, Page 7
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