DROUGHT BROKEN.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20199, 30 March 1931, Page 10

DROUGHT BROKEN.

good bain in povebtx:* : RISE IN SHEEP VALUES. ' Jg| (ma usocuso* sstaaux.) 'Jllfl CHSBORNB, March lie prolonged drought in PwartJjfl Bay and the East Coast distrkfejla| which continued practically all' sk9| summer, has definitely broken at rain having fallen At very intervals for the past four days. ' From September Ist till FebruwqjftH 38th only 7.74 indies of rain wereflll recorded, and in the last three December, January, and the total fall recorded was 1.62 indiamflj To-day , the weather has not any signs at letting up, and rain JbSmmM fallen., almost continuously, ana^ffl -.showers being of tropical violence. ;|SH The rainhas pat fresh heart jwisBBBB the fanning oommnmty, who werg|l|Sj Very heavy, sufferers, and the effrnMß was very noticeable at the MatawheimnH Saleyards on Friday last, when tiM§g|H best aale of the season was held, famSM values being practically doubled those of a few weeks ago. Prices still on the upward grade, and there j£H| every expectation Vrf farther havdad^Hn m <l!oneern was felt over the noawß north and sooth of Gisborne; bat vice car driven reported them to'lmH jfeaeable this morning, and. "the BotqjSßH rna and Napier , ours arrived at borne on tuna, -this afternoon..__