N.S.W. PASTORALISTS
EXCEPTIONALLY ADVERSE SEASON. . By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright SYDNEY, July 8. Mr Oakden, presiding at the annual meeting of the Pastoralists’ Union of New South Wales, stated that 35,713 carcases of mutton and 420 quarters of beef had been given to various funds. The season had been an exceptionally adverse one, a large portion of the Commonwealth having been in the grip of a drought of greater severity than that of 1902. The outlook had improved, though the immediate benefit had not been as great as might have been expected. There was a decrease during the year of over 3,500,000 sheep and 200.000 cattle. Lambing had been seriously affected. With reference to many staple products, wheat, flour and butter, he regretted the crude experimental action of the Government in fixing prices below the market rates on a world parity which had virtually converted the scarcity into a famine.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9091, 9 July 1915, Page 6
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