WIND FORCE
ITS TOLL ON WHEAT
The winds lately have been unpleasant, but people here may not have realised that they have been subtracting from the potential bread supply. The .Christchurch "Press" of yesterday's date states: "The high winds of the last few days have caused damage to wheat and other crops in Canterbury. At Hororata stooks were blown in all directions, and standing crops were badly shaken of gram. Electric light was practically cut oft throughout the district on Friday, and fruit trees fared badly. "On Saturday and Sunday a north-west wind was experienced. Similar reports have come from Eaugioru. and other districts, and the damage to crops and gardens in North Canterbury is widespread. Extensive damage was done to wheat and oat crops in the Bakaia Gorge and Highbank districts by a strong northwest wind on Friday, and it is estimated that for a distance of about seven or eight miles from the mouth of the gorge particularly down the banks of the Eakaia Eiver, 20 per cent, of the standing wheat has been lost. "A resident of the district considered that the wind was. the' most destructive at this time of the year for the last twenty years."
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 37, 14 February 1933, Page 10
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