BROUGHT PREDICTIONS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15970, 12 November 1919, Page 5

BROUGHT PREDICTIONS.

WARNINGS TO AUSTRALIA,

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

Received November 12, 10.30 a.m. SYDNEY, November 12. Mr Clement Wragge predicts a steady falling off in rainfall for Australia after 1920, reaching the maximum of drought in the years 1923 and 1924, Then there will be a good year, but conditions will be serious again from 1926 to 1930.

Mr Douglas Archibald, the wellknown English meteorologist, predicts acute drought conditions between 1920 and 1924, continuing with more or less intensity until 1937.