ENGLAND’S SUMMER
“WORST SINCE 1879” AGRICULTURISTS SUFFER England has just experienced the worst summer since 1879, according to Mr. J. A. Strang, the wet'-known Manawatu pastoralist, who returned to Auckland yesterday by the Niagara. “Appalling!’* was how he described the result to the man on the land in consequence of so much wet weather. “It was sad to see the hay rotting in the field. Some of the farmers do not know what to do,” remarked Mr. Strang. When passing through Canada last month he saw wheat still in the stook; in some instances covered in several feet of snow. The wheat was black. “They say they will be able to thresh it out,” he said; “but I very much doubt it.” Mr. Strang was keenly interested in the type of settler attracted to Canada, and declared that on the whole they were a particularly fine lot.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 243, 4 January 1928, Page 16
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147ENGLAND’S SUMMER Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 243, 4 January 1928, Page 16
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