DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA.
THOUSANDS OF STOCK DYING. FARMERS BEING RUINED. PROPOSED SUPPLIES FROM NEW ZEALAND. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. (Received April 24. 10 p.m.) Melbourne, April 24., Mr. Fuller moved the adjournment of the Federal House to urge the necessity, for suspending the duty on fodder, so as to give farmers and pastoralists facilities foi keeping their stock, alive. He suggested that supplies could be drawn from New Zealand. ■ ; ''"'. • - ~' ". •, " In the course of the discussion members gave terrible accounts of the drought, especially in New South Wales. Despite the large sums being spent' in hand-feeding,, thousands of stock were dying, and settlers were being ruined.; . ts * :" .; Mr. • Kingston sympathised with the farmers, but said that even ; at the :.; present time the export or" fodder was going !on in some of the States, which could. be retained to meet the situation. : The Federal Government, he said, had no power! to 'i suspend , the duty. The ". States ought to deal; with the matter. • ' ' '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11949, 25 April 1902, Page 5
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