BACK FROM AUSTRALIA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 18 June 1912, Page 4

BACK FROM AUSTRALIA.

The welcome rains which, according t» latest advices, have fallen in most of the States of Australia, have come most opportunely. Two well-known farmers trom this district (Messrs T. A. Winks and A. T. Wills), who have lately been in Australia, and. who saw extensive portions of Victoria, New South. Wales, anJ' Queensland agree on saying that the drought nad done much harm to th«; C j-IL trj' Botil al.so independently formed the same opinion of the farms' namely, that they were not models. In fact both declare that they did not see a single farm which they could describe as;neat and well cared for. Yet, though the country was so parched -that th« fields were as dry as the roads Mr W inks said that he could quite imagine what a wonderful country it would be and what great yielding powers it would have; were the rainfall regular and well distributed. Both express themselves as delighted with the generous welcome they received from business people and farms to whom they had letters of introduction.