AUSTRALIAN FARMERS.
f VISITORS’ IMPRESSIONS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Aug. 16. Impressed by the unbounded hospitality of the people they met, a party of 25 New Zealand farmers returned to-day after a tour of South Australia. Twenty are from the South Island. “A fair part of South Australia has a 30in annual rainfall and claims to be able to keep four 6heep to the acre, just with top-dressing, but the bulk of the land has less than ten inches of rain, with only one sheep to ten or fifteen acres,” said the leader of the party, Mr R. D. Robinson, of Ashburton. “Sheepfarmers are finding things reasonably good, but wheat growers are getting only Is 8d a bushel, and they seem to be, in a bail way. Price fixation is being arranged.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 220, 17 August 1939, Page 10
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132AUSTRALIAN FARMERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 220, 17 August 1939, Page 10
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