NORTH OTAGO DROUGHT
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Plight Begpmes Alarining WHEAT FED OFF TO STOCK
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OAMARU, Last Night. Only 46 points of rain were recorded at Oamaru during Npyember, makiug a total of 13.68 incbes fqr 11 months compared with an average of about 22 incbes. With the continued unusually hot and dry weather for this time of the year, drought conditiong in North OtagQ are assuming alarming proportions and the considered ppinipn of men conversant with affairs in the country is that prospects for the seagon's crops are negligiblg. So desperate has the plight of many farmers become that the provincial executive of the North Otago Farmers' Tfnion has made representations through the Eev. A. H. Nordmeyer, M.P. for Oamaru, that the situation warrants action being taken by the Government in granting free railage pf stocic from the distriet pr supplies of fodder from othpr districts, In mosfplaces wheat crops are being fpd off in' the hope of saving stock from starvatipn, and the failing water supply of many farms is giving rise to the utmost epncern.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 59, 2 December 1937, Page 4
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178NORTH OTAGO DROUGHT Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 59, 2 December 1937, Page 4
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