The Government has increase the price of wheat in all the Australia States to 6s 6d per bushel. A Loudon cable states that barrister have been permitted to advance! their fee 20 percent., and doctors fees have advanced by 50 per cent. Three fairly severe frosts were, experi cured at'Tniiiape lust week, «md crops ol potatoes which wen! well advanced Hiiflcrcf morions damage. On one day a gale, rain, luiil, snow, frost, thunder and lightning were all experienced within the 24 hours. A Capetown cablegram states that ow itig to the prolonged and soyo.ro drought ii famine is feared in tlui native territories, The food shortage ellccls about, a million natives. The . Government is organising a svstem of relief, inchidin;,' the .distribution of maize by mechanical transport.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1713, 2 January 1920, Page 6
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