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IN NEW SOUTH WALES POSITION VERY SERIOUS (By Electric Telegraph.--Copyright! (A & N.Z. Cable Association) SYDNEY. ’i'llis I)av. Reports from many country districts show that the position is very serious owing to continued drought and shortage of water. In north-western areas the conditions are especially bad. Sheep are dying and owners are killing iambs to save the lives of the ewes. The grass is rapidly dying Whom cixjps generally are suffering arid over or«usideiT.l>le areas what before the drought, promised to he a bumper harvest is threatened with lailure un less rain falls quickly.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 29 October 1925, Page 2
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94DROUGHT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 29 October 1925, Page 2
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