DROUGHT IN WAIRARAPA.
VEGETATION AND STOCK 'SUFFERING. .-.■ '.; • ■. Bain-has, not fallen in the AVairarapa in any quantity, sines February 25, says the "Age," /which proceeds :—"The country, is- wearing a parched and 'burnt-lip appearance in pnrts, and all kinds:', of root crops and vegetation are languishing Streams, have dried up in all directions, and '.veils arc- beginning to give put'in;the country districts.. Those dependent upon tanks for their domestic supply of.-water art; in a, vnry hart way. .Stock, alss, is beginning to suffer, and unless rain soon falls there will la- a scarcity of feed. Old settler; aver that they -have never previously experienced such- a long stretch of dry weather at (.his season of the year."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1101, 13 April 1911, Page 8
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116DROUGHT IN WAIRARAPA. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1101, 13 April 1911, Page 8
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