AMERICAN DROUGHT
PRESIDENT’S RELIEF PROGRAMME REQUEST FOR HUGE VOTE. WASHINGTON, June 9. (Received June 10, at 6.30 p.m.) President Roosevelt to-day asked Congress for 525,000,000 dollars to finance the drought relief programme already undertaken by the Administration. The President has asked for absolute freedom to spend the money as the Administration sees fit* The appropriation provides for an outlay of 125,000,000 dollars for a special works programme and human relief; 75.000. dollars for purchases of live stock; 100,000,000 dollars for the purchase and processing of cattle for distribution in relief works; 100,000,000 dollars for emergency loans to farmers; 50.000. dollars for the acquisition of sub-marginal lands and the relocation of destitute farmers and their families: 50 000,000 dollars for emergency' work camps; and 25,000,000 dollars for seed purchases. . . Various Government agencies already taken prompt and vigorous action, but the continued shortage of raihfall has made the situation iporc serious.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22285, 11 June 1934, Page 7
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