FARMING IN AUSTRALIA

Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1930, Page 16

FARMING IN AUSTRALIA

“NO LESSONS FOR DOMINION.” After a tour of Australia lasting for six weeks and extending from Sydney to jPerth, Mr. H. S. S. Kyle, M.P. for Riccarton, returned by the Marama this week. Mr. Kyle aaid he considered that New Zealand farmers had nothing to learn from the farmers of Australia. In his opinion, as a result of the drop in prices for produce, the farmers of the Commonwealth were from 25 to 30 per cent, worse off than the farmers of New Zealand. During his stay in Australia Mr. Kyle attended the Sydney Royal Show, and when in Adelaide he visited the Waite Institute, which is similar to the Cawthron Institute at Nelson. The conditions from Adelaide to Perth, he said, were deplorable. The farms seemed to be nothing but red sand. The farmers had drilled in wheat seed and were waiting for rain. From Sydney to Melbourne there was surprisingly little stock to be seen. Victoria, especially, had experienced one of the driest seasons for years. of the farmers had given up wheatgrowing, although there was an attempt to extend the growing of grain in South Australia and Western Australia, but it was hazardous trying to grow wheat with an annual rainfall of 10 in.