NEW SOUTH WALES WHEAT HARVEST.
Judging on present indications (says a Sydney paper), there is every prospect of the ensuing wheat harvest being a bumper one. eclipsing the record season of two years back. The ollicial estimate is that the yield will be somewhere about 30,000,000 bushels. Assuming that this is not too sanguine a forecast, and that nothing happens to prevent its fulfilment, and allowing that 10,000,000 bushels are needed for local consumption, there will he a surplus lor export, of 20,000,000 bushels, which is more than three limes as much as hail to be handled at Darling Island in the season just past, and more than twice as much as in the record year of l!)03-l, when 8,110,000 bushels actually went through the big grain shed. Although such a crop may not be harvested, the Railway Commissioners are acting on the assumption that if will, and are straining their resources in preparation for the increased trallic.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8206, 31 July 1905, Page 6
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158NEW SOUTH WALES WHEAT HARVEST. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8206, 31 July 1905, Page 6
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