SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18796, 18 November 1932, Page 9

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

PROSPECTS PROPITIOUS. FOR BOUNTIFUL HARVEST. (Empire. Press Union.) ADELAIDE, Nov. 10. Never lias South Australia seen an October in which harvest prospects have been so propitious. Throughout the growing season rain has fallen Just when It was needed. Even conservative official estimates place the foorthcoming harvest at more than 50,000,000 bushels, compared with last season's record of 4S. 000.000, while a private calculation based on careful observation of crops In a 1000 mile tour of the principal wheat growing areas of the State, placed G0.000,000 bushels within the bounds or possibility. In districts in which a 10 bushel or 12 bushel yield has been I brought satisfactory in past years, (■ there arc excellent prospects of garnering as much as 10 bags to Die, acre. October is show month throughout most of the Slate, and. following the lead o,f the Royal Show in Adelaide, nearlv all Hie. country gatherings have had record entries, and attendances, a reflection of Die. more optimistic spirit abroad among farmers and other primary producers. The quality of the livestock and agricultural produce has j been particularly high. Wool Interests. Although prices did not quite roach i me level of the September wool sale j in Adelaide, probably because the j (itialil v of the clips was not. of the j same 'high level, the average of the | October auctions was satisfactory I when compared with the rales ruling ■it this time last susun. As a result ! lif the sale, another C2M.I.V.J will lie distributed ainmig woolgrowers, who offered 2H.0G1 bales. Building is IVloro Activo. fine of the events of the month was ; the opening Of a new 10-slmvy build- j mg one of Hie outstanding structures •hi North Terrace. Eroded by an oil "ompany 1° house its own headquarters ami to provide modern office [ suites It. was a significant gesture embodying a conviction that the worst of the depression has passed, it sup--splied work for hundreds of local tradesmen, and business for South Australian manufacturers of steel and cement H has been followed by other building or re-building programmes.