DROUGHT RELIEF

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22464, 7 July 1936, Page 9

DROUGHT RELIEF

AMERICAN PLANS

50,000 FARMERS IN NEED

HUGE COST OF ASSISTANCE

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received July 6, 6.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 5 Officials of the resettlement administration are reported to be ready to ratify the plan of Mr. H. L. Hopkins, emergency relief administrator, to deal with the drought on a longrange rather than an emergency basis. As a result President Roosevelt must decide whether the Federal work programme, involving the expenditure of most of the new relief appropriation of 1,425,000,000 dollars, is to be radically modified. The cost of providing work for 50,000 destitute farmers is unofficially estimated at 40,000,000 dollars. The Weather Bureau reports that the parching heat in the north-ivestern drought region has only slightly modified.

It is announced that a Federal livestock feed agency has been created. Mr. Fechner, director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, states that the 34 camps of the corps in 13 Western States have helped to improve the irrigation systems, and their work will be continued throughout the summer.