NORTH CANTERBURY.
I'rom 8 p.m. on Sunday to 8 a.m. on Monday, in t__ .North Canterbury cli.trie., rain fell heavily and steadily on tho bar.c_t fields and ripening crops. Preparations tor a busy reaping, stacking, or threshing <l*y yesterday were thus out of the question. The weather yesterday was too uncertain to warrant any turning of the stooKs. It cannot be said that any serious damago was done bc-yond adding somo injury to a few crops already terribly laid. There was little or no wind, and the weather fortunately remained cool.
Tiio rainlall at Kaiapoi- tor the twenty-four hours ending "J .30 a.m. yesterday was 1.33 inches.
The Waimakariri main river was running bank to bank yesterday.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13332, 26 January 1909, Page 9
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