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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20448, 19 January 1932, Page 6

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| GENERAL OVER Pfirafll SOME DISTRICTS H©fil|! During the past five days nJjSK bnry province has twice beti by all too brief showers ©£ terday's fall was heavier perienced on Thursday, T»nt 3§P|| sufficiently heavy to do ture great good, and farmers all'llf the parched countryside are'rtirtidfl ing for a deluge to sadly-retarded growth. ' Msl Drizzling rain fell i tt CHoJrtLsSi from early yesterday monuagJpji late afternoon, bnt again th* MfOP not nearly heavy enough to gardens thoroughly. unusually cold for this periojl year, even with a BOU ing, and remained so during +Wj&lfi there being threatening cloude iwSsb all the time. -f^jß A paetoralist gave it as lug s«j3| that the rain, although llkdy-totMJjw harvesting, would have no reaJMMSf ful effect in that respect. It late to hope for any assistance t»m wheat crops, but all root pasture needed rain badly. <?|i Reports from several country LgJfll indicated that the fall had beeaTfefEil general over the province, Jwj&jfi being the only one of several cOTOWaiI cated with where rain had aots£sMlil There wore heavy .clouds sky, however, early last eveoujfc'/ Jjl| some prospect of showers. - V^JmH The voice of a Hororata jubilant. "We have had ii"*a|l§B day. at last,'' he said over Ifc,flg| phone. There over half an fewf!! rain fell from about 9.30 ajn.%j%Bl p.m. He described it as the'ie(j«j|| fall for some months. Rape OHfiirful pastures would benefit CQttgijeiy& Conditions had been sou'-weet aMaSsI cold all day. v \ ■3b Springfield reported a atei4y t Igfln all day yesterday, with an «9tj||« in the rain at about 5 p.m. Hommeljlf weather was then clearing apd'aagK p.m. the indications were that jiffl was all over. ' Only slight showers, which' twecn 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., enced at Hawarden, where the perature fell considerably darligi|K Heavy drizzling rain fell atfoi||| all day, but stopped early in ing. However, what did benefit crops, a report stated. S All round the Rakaia district ft£ WSm fell in a slight drizzle for WM and conditions promised further s!ffl|H| late last night. ;I§||ll Good rain fell at Methven ftMfclf§i9 a.m. until 2.30 p.m., and then although there were still about. In this district, a r«pStfefeß cated, grass pastures were ™ 6r of rain than crops. _,JS gpll Ashburton also received a f&0 £3 ing in the early morning. ijjjj H|| DROUGHT BROKEjiH

GAIN IN POVERTY (FBES3 HESOCIATIOS TEt-IGBi3*Jjlj|ljH GISBORNE, J^uwilfllß Welcome rains during the • ir *s§JßiH have given relief to farmers. '■KjfjjfHj showers were patchy, rangiggtJ||lH .59in at Gisborne to 7.09 in atrjawHl Rain fell heavily at Rq»tffi<Mil other parts of the dry belt, toim|b|B drought conditions were worse 4iJEgH9 Gisborne. This is the first S rain the district has exporienjaßH