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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 216, 8 June 1926, Page 10

“Wo had a remarkable instance of the dryness of Hawke’s Bay recently when wo were coming through in the car,” said, a visitor from Feilding in a statement at Napier a few days ago (savs an exchange). He said that at. Bunnythorpe he and his party passed through a mob of 2500 sheep lining driven from the parched areas of Hawke's Bay to tho greener fields and newer pastures of the Wanganui district. The mob, which had been on the road for several days, worn very thin, the speaker said, but for sheep coming the distance in the time thev had he considered tl eni Hie most lively sheep he had ever seen “It shows," he said, “how dry it must be there for sheep to be driven right across the island for fresh grass."