GIVING SHEEP AWAY, OWING TO SERIOUS DROUGHT.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received Mav 3, 1 p.m.) BRISBANE, May 2. Owing to the drought in the Winton district, ewes just off the shearers’ hands sold as low as Is 6d each, while a selector at Longreach gave away 800 unshorn weaners which were too weak to travel to the agistment area and for which transportation cost Is a head.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17836, 3 May 1926, Page 9
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