BOUNTEOUS RAINS.
FALLING IN DROUGHT AREAS. PRICE OF BEEP RUSHED UP. Australian and N.Z. Cable Associartaou. Received January 7, 11 a.m. SYDNEY, January 7. Bounteous rains are falling over wide grazing areas and have enhanced the prospects of feed. They have stopped Die rush on the stock market which marked the drought period, and have rushed up prices "of beef on the hoof, which sold to lOd per pound—a record. Retail butchers from to-day advance Ibices 25 per cent Many are cutting out beef as too dear to handle. So far the worst Western drought areas have benefited. There was little rain as a preliminary.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16017, 7 January 1920, Page 5
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105BOUNTEOUS RAINS. Wanganui Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16017, 7 January 1920, Page 5
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