DROUGHT DISASTER
IN AUSTRALIA
N.S.W. and Victorian Losses
[Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.l (Received May 18, 10.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 18. The drought conditions in New South Wales, excepting on the coast, still persist, and are causing great uneasiness. The conditions are resulting in the Government offering to provide relief for farmers and stock-owners. Reports by Government officers indicate that appalling mortality among sheep and cattle is inevitable in the winter in all of the pastoral and wheat country.
In the North West and in most of the Southern Riverina districts, there is not a blade of grass or herbage. There is an acute water shortage, and the livestock are being handfed.
The outlook for the winter lambing was never so bad.
The prospects of a good wheat harvest are negligible. The position over most of . Victoria is much the same, but it is more hopeful to South Australia.
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Grey River Argus, 19 May 1938, Page 7
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