SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED
SLUM? IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Perth, August 7. Pastoralists consider that the low prices for sheep now obtainable necessitate the destruction of 100,000 i-'beep. . It is estimated that in the Gascoyne district alone about 00,000-ewes will have, to be slaughtered to prevent pastoral country from becoming overstocked. . / 'A cable of July 19. from Perth said that sheep values at the fat stock ma"tv‘t.s v. etc so low. that many pastoralists had T.esort.eo to the practice of killing the older sheep to make room for the oncoming lambs. In most cases the prices at the marker did hot cover the costs attendant on the oalcs.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 August 1930, Page 14
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