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Drought Rolls Across Riverina Amid Local Struggles
A Narramine orchardist weighs options for a motor car valued at £9150, while drought grips the Riverina with its worst since 1851. Reports cite stock losses, high hay prices, broken aquifers near Parkes, and calls for dips as whole herds are affected. A baboon captured as a feared district monster ends the scare, and Parkes railway earths cracks widen concerns over local infrastructure debt and unpaid wages.
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Hance Papple
Corrie Shire
Cotter
Riverina
John
Stapleton Owas
Wales
Dabos
Orton Park
Bathurst
Lucerne
Parkes
Suntury Vic