DROUGHT IN AUCKLAND.
! * j SERIOUS EFFECTS. , By Telegraph.-—Per Press Association, ! Auckland, Last Night, • Sinco July lesa than four inches of ' rain have fallen in Auckland, as cobm pared with 14 inches, which is the aver*age fall for (August, September, October* . and November. The result is that thi dairy industry, which three months agtf •< appeared to bo embarking on the moßijprosperous season on record, is gradually slackening, and the positioif > daily growing more serious, as there idno growth left in the pastures, and thrt • dairy herds are gradually becoming leatf.. profitable. Many growers state «.pt ; their potato crops have been ruined by the prevailing dryness, and the Wolfe mata strawberry-growers state that the , drought has done such damage already in their gardens that they will havifor market this year less than half the* 000,000 boxes produced last year.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 154, 25 November 1914, Page 4
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137DROUGHT IN AUCKLAND. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 154, 25 November 1914, Page 4
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