"I think it's speaking from a community point of view, the monthly markets bring in a good number of people in to town, obviously the local sheep firms have less sheep to sell so they'll be generating less commission," he said.
"There's actually five businesses in the main street of Jamestown, and there's about 2–3 empty premises which we've never seen before," he said."Our worst months have been March/April where the workshop work dropped off dramatically, it dropped off 20–30 per cent," he said."And new car sales are down 9 per cent."However, even if the drought breaks, it could take years for the sheep industry to full recover.
Not since the Tim Fannery days anyway, bring back Tim.
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