SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ITEMS

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18641, 20 May 1932, Page 5

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ITEMS

SEASON’S PROSPECTS. GOOD AND EARLY RAINFALL. (Empire Press Union.) ADELAIDE, May 11. The season has opened early, and with the most promising signs for ! many years. There is not a section !of the varied agricultural country, ! from the far west coast to the southeastern corner adjoining the Victorian border, but teas had an abnormally 1 good and early rainfall. The cttect ! of this is confidently expected to rcI suit in a record acreage under wheat, i South Australia’s best yield to date ' was 45,745,004 bushels in 191 G-17, jan average of 1(3.46 bushels from [ 2,778,357 acres. South Australia has ; high hopes of beating that yield, even though an official estimate has been ; set down at 44,500,000. I Prospects In the pastoral country ! nre fair to very good. There is abundance of dry feed, and although green | feed for lambing, which additional I pastoral rain could give, is needed, ! there is going to he a big lambing. | The good dairying conditions of last year are being followed this year by better. Last year’s butter export, amounting to more than 2000 tons, is | expected to he exceeded, and a big export of cheese will follow naturally. Increasing Gold Yield. In 1931 the State’s yield of gold was 2782 One ounces, compared with |l3 Li One ounces in 1930. The Government has helped 800 men by lending them equipment to go-gold searching. There have been many minor “rushes” to peg claims, which have been reported rich, hut fortunes as yet '•have not -been won, though the men I making a good living, i In this search for sudden wealth there has been nothing more romantic ! -.and tragic—than the attempts to Ond the reputedly fabulously wealthy deposit of gold in Central Australia, near the West Australian border, about 1000 miles from Adelaide as the crow Hies, but nearly 1750 miles on the track. This is known as Lasscter's Aladdin's Gave, which exploring prospectors have sought in vain. It is somewhere in Australia’s most inhospitable country. The more recent expeditions have employed aeroplanes In the search, but with no more success Ilian those who went by packhorse and camel. Popularity of Cars. Tfie Motor Vehicles Department has issued figures to show that the year's revenue estimate of £ 170,000 is certain to he passed by at least £30,000, and the amount so far received has exceeded that for the corresponding period of last year by £29,160. To date 55,000 vehicles have been registered, representing a vehicle to every 10 persons in Hie Slate.