HEAVY RAIN PREDICTED.
GOOD DOWNPOUR EXPECTED. WELCOME NEWS FOR FARMERS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON', this day. Farmers in may look for a heavy downpour very shorily, according to Mr. Bates, the Government meteorologist, who is in Hamilton. Instruments at Ruakura, he told a Press man, showed ft amount of moisture in the atmosphere, and tho barometer had only to fall another three or four points and rain was bound to come. It was hovering about, and when it did faJl, he thought it would be he£.vy, as usually after being lonp delayed it ie long sustained. This is g-ood news to Waikato farmers and householders -with purden plotej* as thn district throughout is badly parched, and stock is suffering in consequence. There is but little green feed except in some of the swampy districts, and a fall in meat prices has in consequence resulted, a-s farmers are j unable to hold stock when feed is short, and have to part with it at below actual value on thie account.
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 57, 8 March 1921, Page 5
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