AUSTRALIAN DROUGHT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16758, 7 June 1920, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN DROUGHT.

RAIN DOES IMMENSE GOOD. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. SYDNEY, June 6. The rain has practically cleared, though much more is required in the dry areas to thoroughly break the drought. Almost the whole of the State has greatlv benefited, and the outlook is vastly improved. It is claimed to have saved the wheat crop from disaster, hundreds of fanners from bankruptcy, and that it will enable pasloi'alists to save many of their breeding stock, which otherwise would have perished or had to bo sacrificed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. WHEAT CROPS, SAVED BY THE RAIN. (Received Juno 7, 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 7. Since the rain the long delayed ploughing in the wheat area is being feverishly pushed ahead. It is now assured that the area sown will largely sown paddocks will require re-sowing, the rain fell. In some cases previously sown paddocks wil Require rc-sowing. but large areas which appeared doomed have been given a now start.