EFFECTS OF DROUGHT
NEW SOUTH WALES MILK AND WATER SHORT DAMAGE BY BUSH FIRES ' SYDNEY, April 1 Owing to protracted drought coniflitions, there is a serious shortage of milk in Sydney. At the week-end private individuals, milk bars and small Ehops were rationed hv 20 per cent. The end of the record heat wave experienced' throughout New South Wales in the past week, and possibly the end of the drought, is heralded by a change to a cool southerly wind. The shortage of watery in many towns is desperate. The summer rainfall in Sydney this year was the lowest on record, and, hush fires caused enormous damage. ' Passengers on two divisions of the Melbourne express, both of which arrived at Sydney six hours late, spent a night of anxiety as the trains sped through miles of fierce bush fires. In Victoria, railway bridges caught fire, but breakdown gangs did great work in kepping the lines safe.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23620, 2 April 1940, Page 8
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