IRELAND SORE DISTRESSED
WORST YEAR SINCE 1847. HUNGER AND COLD TRIUMPH. BY GABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT, (Received Jan. 31. 11.40 a.m.) V LONDON, Jan. 30. This is deemed the hardest year Ireland has experienced since the famine in “Black ’47.” There is the acutest fuel famine throughout the West ot Ireland and among rich and poor alike, but the plight of the latter is the worse as thev are suffering from hunger. as the floods have destroyed the remains of the potato crop, while the peat is rotten in the bogs. Hundreds of graziers have been made bankrupt owing to deaths of sheep and cattle.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 January 1925, Page 7
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105IRELAND SORE DISTRESSED Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 January 1925, Page 7
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