ENGLAND’S WET WINTER

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 215, 30 November 1927, Page 8

ENGLAND’S WET WINTER

FARMERS’ POOR OUTLOOK STOOKS DESTROYED IN FIELDS Two deaths on the Oronsay and a suicide as well did not altogether make the voyage from England to Sydney a very pleasant one. Unfortunately this was the experience of Mr. G. F. Henry, an old Aucklander, who arrived yesterday by the Ulimaroa. It was 38 years since Mr. Henry was last in England, so* necessarily he saw many changes. The fates were not kind to him from a weather point of view, however, as he did not have one fine day during the several months he spent in his native land. Indeed, Mr. Henry is of the opinion that a rather serious period is ahead for the English farmers this year. It was the wettest season on record for nearly half a century. The consequence was that the crops had been ruined, and the prospect, generally, for the man on the land was not too hopeful.

Mr. Henry saw stooks burned in the field. Others had simply rotted. On the other hand he was impressed by England’s industrial revival, and the general return to a more normal existence.

Travel in Italy convinced Mr. Henry that Mussolini was “the right man in the right place.” There was hardly an acre in all Italy, he said, which was not under cultivation in some form or another.