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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 200, 16 August 1940, Page 5

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TWO VIEWS ON THE RAIN QUESTION BENEFIT TO FARMERS It is said that two sides exist to every question and a subject on which opinion was well divided was the continuous rain which fell from Thursday until the early hours of Tuesday morning. Those in the town stared, wondered and complained. Some farmers also com plained—too much of a good thing —but the majority shook hands with themselves, took another look out of the Avindow, and thought of the paddocks they had harrowed recently, the fertiliser they had dis tributed and the new grass. It was rain they wanted and it Avas rain they Avere geeting. With the change from the cold temperatures and harshness of the first tAvo days, Avhen cxtrcmelV heavy- downpours Avere associated with a strong north-easterly gale, the steady, warm ■ rain which followed throughout Saturday,, Sunday and Monday was appreciated by the rural community. "Good groAVing Aveather," they said, and agreed that the new dairying season was opening in most favourable conditions. That satisfaction was voiced the more firmly because of the unusually dry winter, the rainfall for May, June and July, being Avell beloav average, and a lengthy continuance of frosts militating against spring growth. Gardening enthusiasts in the toAvn doubtless found the same satisfaction and "will agree that Avhatever the discomforts to be faced in Avalking to work on four Avet mornings and walking-home on four Avet evenings, they are more than outAveighed Avhen the flower-beds are considered and the lawns have responded to a spell' of, as one described it, a snail's heaven.