CONDITIONS IN AUSTRALIA.
AUCKLAND, May 20. "I was told of districts in New South Wales through which I recently travelled by rail," said a returned Aucklarader to a Star reporter, " where there has been scarcely a sprinkle of min for 12 months. New Zealand farmers don't know what it is to eee a paddock absolutely bare of pasture, with ths unfortunate stock without a bite of natural food. Stock were dying, I was told, in many districts through inability to supply them with food and water. The bk> shecpowners arc having a very bad time of it. and if the drought does not break soon there will be a reaction in the Sydney boom before very long in my opinion. The weather bureau reports are daily scanned in the city with intense eagerness, and it is end to see one after another turning away with the same significant remark, ' No rain yet.' "
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Otago Witness, Issue 3036, 22 May 1912, Page 34
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152CONDITIONS IN AUSTRALIA. Otago Witness, Issue 3036, 22 May 1912, Page 34
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