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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 53, 21 February 1908, Page 2

lIKLI' WA.VJ'Kn. 1/m di-a-trou- lire- that !y ilmiiiS Uk' past few weeks Inue raged in wai'ly every portion of this islan 1 may 1)1'. Mttniv aver. a binding in dis-.uui-e, 1)111 1,1 the iiunicdiaie sullercr tic disguise is c (iinph-t,.. Thou-ands hi acres ill grass have Ih'i'ji -wept !l . v llie dames, ami. unfortunately. ii. !uiin the .great Miajnrilv in cases Ihtii tin' land nl 1 lie snuggling settler ibut lias stili'ercd. Uiili llic iiii])i'eii",l<-nti'<l drought and c< iwiptcnt shortage oi' feed the prospects of lite settlers nas uninviting enough 1( feu- week. ago, but when t" (hat misfortune is added the complete destruction of all the gra-s over great areas of country, the position is calamitous. 11l a country such a, Taranaki no recovery can !«• made this vear, and the Stock on many sections will have („ be sacrificed. As yet it is impossible to even approximately assess the losses, but it h already only too painfiillv evident •liai many small farmers in the black,,,lnl '"■«'< ll " ill Ik' a ruined unless is-istanee is forthcoming. We would surest that the Department of A«riculture. which posses-os the machinery " Mal| "I" impure in very cas'e "I loss, sliou Id. in ti„. interests 'of the Dominion, be re,,noted to report on all Uccc"lll m- ca-cs and recommend assistance w here il i„ genuinely required. Tlni j could l,e,t take the form „( grass-seed nece,~ary to replace I hat ,|e. ■sirnyed. A precedent for this course was e-tablished in Taranaki nianv years "'■-Of '"nl then. have lieen more ri-cont caoes when- the tioverniiie,|( rightlv came to thi' assistance of farmers iii tlic Noiith who were practically ruined by Hood and snow. Il is in 'the be-! iiil eresls of the Dominion a I large that 1 ml I ji such lip ojviMi. ;ut:l in un-iii'i- 1 lie chiinu of ih.' liiv-miltni svUU'l-s 1 » TmMnaki wo i-lniut In ]»> mm-lv ii£f for thai wliieli ii;i istic in Hie !)»- niiiiun would I 1

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