CROPS ARE WILTING.
SOAKING RAIN NEEDED. OTAGO FARMERS' PLIGHT. (By Telegraph.—Bpeclal to "Stnr.") DUNEDIN, Wednesday. Only soaking rain in the next week can save many farmers in Central Otago, who are without irrigation, from assessing their losses at thousands of pounds as the result of what they consider to be a major drought. Crops are wilting, grasslands arc burnt brown and stock is in an emaciated condition. There has not been a proper fall of rain there for nearly three months and the soil is desert-dry. So serious is the toll of the drought that many etock losses have been reported and cases are common where sheep have been turned on dying crops of oats.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 268, 11 November 1937, Page 20
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115CROPS ARE WILTING. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 268, 11 November 1937, Page 20
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