A NOTE OF ALARM.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 11 October 1922, Page 7

A NOTE OF ALARM.

BY CABLE- ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Oct. 11, 12.25 p.m. SYDNEY, Ocfc.'Tl. The Daily Telegraph's agricultural editor sounds a not© of alarm regarding the New South Wales wheat harvestHe says it is estimated that 3,202,000 1 acres were sown for gran, and the , absence of spring rains over a great part of the wheat belt threatens to cut the possible harvest down by a third or one-half. He adds that a break in the weather now, with sufficient rain, would make a 30,000,000 bushel harvest possible, and with a continuance of the hot weather now prevailing 25,000,000 may not be realised. In some districts large areas are already beyond recovery and others are in a precarious condition. In the Rivenna and Southwest", which will account for rather more than haJTlhe total, the outlook is for bumper yields to half crops.