Cam; 'THE Prime Munistex, Me, S, M. period. Each year, the railways Jdepartments send officials through-lout the country to estimate the prob-wheat and other cereals. This estimate is taken so department may be in readiness to deal with the transport of the crops. Last year the yield amounted to—in Victoria alone— season, the optimistic survey allows for nly 26,000,000 bushels and if no rain whatever fall before harvest While some of the candidates in the recent election campaign, experienced only such discomforts as hailstorm of eggs, and other]
ials which were past. the state of utility, the Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, and the} retiring member for "'the Northern Territory had the distinguished experiences of "being Bushed." It was the endeavour of the Prime Minister to visit as many smaller towns as possible, and to address electors who had' previously not! been favoured with a Prime Minister's attention. In order to accomplish this task it was nec sary for him to take many cross-country journeys, and it was during one of these trips Mr. Bruce and his wife, who travelled throughout the entire itinerary of some 9,000) miles, found themselves stranded in an area with no apparent outlet. The Prime Minister had at tended a meeting at Bendigo, and left the following morning only 21,000,000 bushels, These} at 8 'a.m. intending to ates are for the most fertile dress electors at various smaller places between this town and Seymour on the North-eastern railfected by periods of dry weather. way line where he was due to catch Short-sighted Policies the 6.30 p.m. train for Sydney, NS.W. Leaving a township called That the foregoing state of affairs Heatheote, advice was asked of a is serious to this ce has long local resident as to the best route been recognized by the statesmen to pursue. This advice may, or may guiding Australia's not have been purposely misleading, sparseness of the population, but nevertheless, the following the great areas that popul nis it left the Prime Minister and spread over, makes it difficult to party high and dry at several cross amongst our inroads, which were mere tracks habitants whenever a scheme suit-Each tried in turn lead to a dead able for the irrigation of large areas end, so that after trying to get back is branched. All irrigation schemes to the main-road, have practically to be done by the State departments. The Burranjack many paddocks which Weir which feeds tens of thousands were inhabited only by stock, Mrs. of acres in the Riverina district does Bruce put forward the idea of work-not materially affect Queensl@d, i ind negotiating the
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