GOLDEN RAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1927, Page 3

GOLDEN RAIN

BREAK OF DROUGHT.

SYDNEY, Oct. 13

It is perhaps impossible to estimate in actual money the wealth of the recent rain in New South Wales, even if it were too late for some parts, Uneven where it was light, it came just in time to save a considerable proportion. of the wheat crop. A\ bile the harvest is likely to be one ol the lightest for many years, the position, without the rain of the last few days would have been infinitely worse, and such, indeed, as to cause grave anxiety. In the new wheat districts of the west, the possible total failure ol the crop was causing some concern. The wheat yield will now he sufficient for local consumption and for seed, and will. L:i addition, provide a small surplus for ex]>ort. The rain .incidentally, once again played a fateful jpart in the life of the Royal Agricultural Society. It was the irony of fate that the rain which means so much to those on whose support the Royal Show relies should have brought disaster to that pageant at Easter. Then last week the society staged the Spring Show primarily, one imagines, to help it to recoup its severe losses at Easter. Once again the rain spoilt everything. As Sydney weather cannot seemingly he relied upon, either at Easter or in the spring, the society will perhaps, as a gamble, stage its next Royal Show in tho winter on the off chance of experiencing then the rosy light of sunshine of which it has now been twice cruelly cheated this year.