DROUGHT MENACE
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AUSTRALIA’S PROSPERITY. NO LONGER AFFECTED BY IT METEOROLOGIST’S STATEMENT. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COP if RICH 1 t Received 1.2 i) p.m to-day. AIELBGURN'E, Dee. 10. According to Mr. Hunt, Commonwealth Meteorologist, investigations by the Weather Bureau tend to show that tlie drought menace no longer affects Australia's prosperity, the total production of the country now being nearly independent of departures from the normal rainfall. A graph prepared, showing the drop in productivity in sympathy with subnormal rainfall, was formerly very marked, but in recent years, however, this sympathetic decline has been decreasing, until it appeared that a stage had been reached where a drought produced no corresponding reaction in the total production.
The Teasons for this were that Australia was becoming more and moi'e a factor in the world’s supply of food and wool, and when the crops were small, owing to unfavourable seasons, foreign demands inflated the prices. Secondly, localised droughts were absorbed in the general total production of Australia, which more than counterbalanced them.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 10 December 1926, Page 11
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170DROUGHT MENACE Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 10 December 1926, Page 11
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