HEAVY RAINS BREAK DROUGHT.
(Elec. Tel. Copyright— United Press Assn ) (Received Feb. 18, 10.15 a.m.) ' ' v . . SYDNEY, Feb. 18. There is steady rain m the west and ; every indication that the drought - has i broken.
"New South Wales is m the grip of a terrible drought," writes a. Sydney cor-" respondent, ''and, coming at such a time on, top of £11 ? other troubles is more than seriQus.^ It means ruination to a great many small farmers and sheep men. Sydney to-day is a city of masked I citizens, with , all its places ofamusej merit closed,, half -deserted shops and 1 restaurants, and thousands of persons thrown out of employment owing to thp influe.nza. I was m town yesterday, and it was like a Sunday. The State Government has taken drastio action, and, hope;, with* the Jielp of the citizens to stamp oijb the scourge before it gets a great hold."
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19190218.2.58
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14840, 18 February 1919, Page 5
Word Count
150HEAVY RAINS BREAK DROUGHT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14840, 18 February 1919, Page 5
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.