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DROUGHT'IN NEW SOUTH WALES. DISASTER THREATENED. UNLESS PROMPT RELIEF IS GIVEN. Received May I 'i, 9.40 p.m. * SYDNEY, May I i. A deputation, representing slock interests, interviewed the Minister "1 Agriculture and Land .and broughl.befcrc him the serious plight of grazing areas owing In continued drought. The deputation painted a gloomy picture of the Outlook, and declared that unless slock-owners were able lo get supplies ni' fodder immediately there was going I" he the biggest disaster known in New South Wales. Sheep and oilier slock would die in hundreds of thousands, and the docks would be devastated, ami owners ruined. The Minister was sympathetic, and said I In' Government recognised lite extreme necessity for relief, and was doing everything possible in ils power but was hampered by the scarcity of shipping and in other directions.
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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14364, 15 May 1920, Page 5
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