DROUGHT-STRICKEN

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 274, 21 November 1919, Page 5

DROUGHT-STRICKEN

$$SSES IN NEW SOUTH WAI3ES.

BULLIONS OF DEAD SHEEP.

[Press Association.] /deceived Nov. 21, 9.45 a.m.)

SYDNEY, Nov. 21. Alde]*snan Broods, speaking at the Milijop*-(Club, said that three-fourths r.i jNew -^outh Wales was droughtstj'&jke.n. Dead sheep numbered mil-lroH-s. 'IJe>feared that instead of normal l(vmbir»gs of eight million there v/euldPbe "{em than two million. The loss of "live ,stpc k through the drought would probably exceed £50,000,000. It was jiot -inj?rely a disaster but a calamity tp 'th.% Commonwealth.