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Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 February 1915, Page 3

A Southern exchange says: — Farmers are fortunate this year that blight has not yc-t appeared among the potato crops. Even in districts where last year the Irish blight ruined entire paddocks, there is not so far the slightest sign of the scourge. It is doubtful, even if a warm and moist autumn be experienced, that crops will lose materially from this year, a state of affairs due no doubt, to the early prevalence of drying winds.