IN HAWKE'S BAY.
THE LAND AND THE HEAT.
There' is-not-the Slightest 1 doubt that] notwithstanding that the present dry period in Hawke's Bay has on several occapions teen broken,' the'country there is still very, badly off Tor rain. 11l 9omo. places th 6. fields, nre burnt bf'own. ~Tlm heat has been-ofa Kind which' dees, the most damage;,-there - have been e'ear Skies.and.fierce suns-for weeks.'-The muggyhtat with the clouded sKvMs not nearly so severe as the heat which Hawke's Bay hiis.' been called) upon to withstand latelv.: The field crops in many cas&3 have not been at all good this year. On Monday rain threatened, and farm-, ierswero.hoping for a downpour, but they were, disappointed, just as they had been two days, previously, when a thunderstorm passed over southern. Hawke's Bay, but little if any'rain fell.. A shower of from half.an hour,;t3>an hour's duration felUa'fc ir-idday. on Monday, .but theidownfall was. a? a mere drop<to.thc''parchod'larid. > Harvesting' is still proceeding. Monday's shower interrupted operations on ec-ine farms. '
On tlie whole tho fanners are not now complaining a, great deal'about* want'■of' Tain, but, withal, water is very badly jiceded. ■ •'. ' ■ • v '•
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1023, 12 January 1911, Page 8
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186IN HAWKE'S BAY. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1023, 12 January 1911, Page 8
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