FARMERS RUINED
SOUTH AFRICAN DROUGHTNO PASTURES FOR STOCK According to a letter ■ which has been received, in Melbourne by Senator Guthrie from South Africa, farmers and graziers there are in a* desperate position as the result of a drought. "There have been" huge losses of sheep," the letter states. "The loss 'of all kinds' of sheep, by the end of winter, will be nearer 12,000,000, of which about 7,000,00Cr will be Merinos. Men who were wealthy a few yeare ago are ruined to-day. Farms are being sold for as low as Is a morgeri (two and one-eighth acres). Dairy cattle are unsaleable, as there are no pastures, and feed is unprocurable. Even after stopping the export of mealies, there will not be sufficient to go round, and the Government is in a dilemma."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21562, 5 August 1933, Page 8
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