SERIOUS DROUGHT
EAST COAST SUFFERING CATTLE BEING MOVED ACROSS THE ISLAND New Zealand is at present suffering from a prolonged drought, which is particularly affecting the Hawke’s Bay, Wairarapa, and Poverty Bay districts. A prominent Hawke’s Bay pastoralist, who passed through Wellington yesterday on his way to the exhibition at Dunedin, informed a Dominion reporter that the position was serious in his province. Feed had become so scarce that large numbers of cattle had had to be trucked from Hawke’s Bay to the West Coast, where feed was more plentiful owing to the more generous rainfall experienced. The shortage of pasture- caused by the drought hi Hawke’s Bav, he declared, had prevented the lambs from developing tins season as they should have done, and manv of there were poor and stunted. Lines of lambs had been sold just before he left for 6s. a head. Poverty Bav and Wairarapa were also acutelv feelintr the effects of the drought, and Canterbury, as far south as Oamaru, also badlv wanted rain. What with the dron in the price of mutton and dairy produce, and the depreciation in the value of stock caused by the drought, he was afraid that farmers were m for a bad season.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 89, 9 January 1926, Page 6
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204SERIOUS DROUGHT Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 89, 9 January 1926, Page 6
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