DROUGHT BREAKS
WIDESPREAD SHOWERS The steady warm showers which commenced falling last Sunday evening and have continued without a break since, mark very definitely the end of the most serious drought experienced in the Eastern Bay for many years. After nearly four months of continuously fine weather which has inflicted very serious hardship on the farming community the fall for the past 48 hours at Edgecumbe, this morning measured 3.43 inches. In Whakatane the fall was lighter measuring 1.89 inches. The rain however is warm, penetrating and persistent and is exactly the type of fall designed to restore the Autumn pastures and correct in some degree at least, the heavy losses sustained in butterfat production.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 51, 12 March 1946, Page 5
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115DROUGHT BREAKS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 51, 12 March 1946, Page 5
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