An Inch of Rain
We talk about “ only an inch ” as if an inch of rain (says the Sydney Stock and Station Journal) were a trifling matter. An inch of raiu weighs a hundred tons to the acre. When you think of the people up on the Johnson River in Queenslanc getting fourteen feet in a season, and then reckon up the weight, you gasp I It ought to crush the earth flat. When Nyngan got six inches in one fall, it seems wonderful to think of six hundred tons of water to the acre 1 A man was nearly drowned at Wanstead flaxmill yesterday. He was rescued after much trouble.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume I, 17 July 1906, Page 3
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111An Inch of Rain Waipukurau Press, Volume I, 17 July 1906, Page 3
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