LESSON IN NEGATIVES
BREAKING the drought, yesterday's welcome rainfall was regarded with smiling satisfaction throughout the Eastern Bay qf Plenty. The average farmer heaved a sigh of relief, while the townsman contemplated the downpour with undisguised pleasure. The greatest relief to popular anxiety was felt by those large-hearted farmers at Onepu and landowners in the notorious 'desert' area, where the pumice pan effectually bars the moisture from reaching the thinlyturfed crust. The tantalising fact tha,t water exists a bare three feet underground, does not offset the severity of the dry period, and year after year these settlers have had to contend with burnt out pastures, and t drying herds, when the season is only half spent. Compared with othfer farmers their lot is an unenviable one a,nd we trust that the break in the weather will enable them to recoup something from the balance of the season, which up to the present had appeared quite hopeless.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 19, 20 February 1942, Page 4
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156LESSON IN NEGATIVES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 19, 20 February 1942, Page 4
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