PASTORAL INDUSTRY BLEEDING TO DEATH.
DEPRESSING PICTURE DRAWN BY VISITOR TO NORTH AUSTRALIA.
(United Press Assn.—l3y Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received August 21, 10 a.m.) < SYDNEY, August 21
A depressing picture of life in Northern Australia is painted by Mr C. Conacher, attorney for Vestey Brothers, the meat exporters. There was absolutely no productive industry in Port Darwin or the hinterland, he said. The pastoral industry was literally bleeding to death. Many big firms had lost nearly all their original capital. The only thing that kept them there was the hope that these conditions were largely due to Governmental administration and an entire lack of knowledge of local circumstances and adverse labour conditions, and that they would improve.-—Aus-tralian Press Association.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18546, 21 August 1928, Page 1
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