DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA.
PESSIMISTIC REPORT.
CUTTING WHEAT FOR HAY.
[BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
TIMAED, Saturday.
The following private message has beea received from Sydney:"November will see early wheat cut for hay at £13 per ton. It is raining a little in some places, but the north and west are in a bad way. Our wheat will come next season from Riverina. We may have a good crop there, but everywhere there •will be a shortage of straw and fodder if general dry weather continues. We may gee the export of wheat prohibited, and should a flour shortage occur, we would not know where to look to fill it."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17295, 20 October 1919, Page 6
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