MORE RAIN

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21090, 15 February 1934, Page 8

MORE RAIN

lIAIiVKSTFNf; DKI.AYKI) i \>i:aso\ahi.k w i:\tiiksj Kain winch fell in many parts of Canterbury yesterday e,avc the tannin.'.; community a severe selhack. Harvesting was al its peak, but the downpour in many districts was so seven.- that il is estimated that work will nut be continued for at Ji asl three days. The later wheat crop.; have already had far too much moisture and are nut heading as welt as they were at first expected to do. and fanners are beginning to fear that if the weather does not become fine and settled very soon Ihe result will be well-nigh disastrous. The oat crops are looking better than Ihe wheat, and growers have hopes of coming out of the season fairly well. Vestr. relay's rain began in must districts with a line drizzle, which became intensified in Ihe afternoon and culminaled in heavy showers b. iweeu (i aufl 7 o'clock. ]l seemed to he lis. t severe ill the Loestnll di..!rict, v, here it was still raining heavily last. ni;j,ht. and showed no i-rns of Hearing. J\ report received from there by "The Press" said that north-westerly weather would be more welcome than any other now, because it would dry things up and the farmers a chance to get on. At. iVlethvcn there were only occas!"ua! showers, and they were not, heavy enough to .'-.top harvesting. There were i-i.mis in the evening that the weather would break. Akaroa had murgy weather, the rain never home, men; than a drizzle, and there were no heavy .bowers at Cheviot until about -1 .■'clock. Amberlo'. was. one of the lew places which escaped, or almost, escaped, the only ram bein.e. a fairly beavv shower lielween a and (i ■ •"clock. However, there were indications of further falls during the melt I. In the city the rain he.can m the eaily morning and continued in !a;lil. shov.ers throughout the day. About 7 o'clock in the evening there was a heavy downpour, which lasted for some time, but the sky then cleared n little, and although it clouded again later there had been no further rain up to an early hour this morning.