■ “It is commonly said that there are only 47 states in the Union, for Oklahoma, which is the centre of the ‘dust bowl,’ has moved to California,” said Mr E. J. Thomas, of San Francisco. who arrived in Auckland with his family in the 44ft yacht Silver Spray from Russell recently, after a trip from America. Mr Thomas said the refugee camps in California suggested that there had been a war in progress. Farmers and theii’ families had been forced to leave their holdings because the dust storms had made them worthless. Some of them had been able to raise only enough mpney for their fares.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1939, Page 7
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