AUSTRALIAN DROUGHTS
NO EFFECT ON PROSPERITY. ADJUSTED BY OTHER FACTORS. (Pres» Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, December 10. (Received Dec. 10, at 5.5 p.m.) According to Mr H. A. Hunt, the Commonwealth Meteorologist, investigations by the Weather Bureau tend to show that the drought menace no longer affects Australia’s prosperity, the total production of the country now being nearly independent of departures from the normal rainfall. A graph has been prepared showing that the drop in productivity in sympathy with a subnormal rainfall was formerly very marked. In recent years, however, the sympathetic decline has been decreasing until it appeared that a stage had been reached at which drought conditions produced no corresponding reaction in the total production. The for this were that Australia was becoming more and more a factor in the world’s supply of food and wool, and When crops were small owing to unfavourable seasons the foreign demands inflated prices. Secondly, localised droughts were absorbed in the general total production of Australia, which more thau counterbalanced them.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19970, 11 December 1926, Page 13
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