WEATHER AND CROPS

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 37, 14 February 1916, Page 2

WEATHER AND CROPS

There are evidently two centres of disturbance northward of-New Zealand. A south-easterly gale blew all day yesterday, though the weather improved iii most parte of the country. Southerly gales were reported on. Saturday evening at Stephen Island and Cape' Campbell, and conditions were very rough in the Strait. The glass is below normal everywhere, and lowest in the north. Conditions are still threatening, especially in and northward of Cook Strait. Tho forecast is for a south-easterly gale generally, cold, squally, and with heavy showers. The glass is likely to rise in the south, after ten hours, 'But is very unsteady in the north, and a further fall may be anticipated before a . rise takes place.

The wheat crop in the Taieri . this season^ (telegraphs the Dunedin • correspondent of the Christchurch Press) is described ,as exceptionally good, it being estimated that the yield will be approximately 100,000 sacks. ' This quantity represents 300,000 bushels, which should give, when milled, something like 6000 tons of flour. It is stated that 6000 tons of flour would suffice for Dunedin's requirements for about eight months. Rust has made an appearance on wheat in the Clutha district, but not to a serious extent.

A gentleman, resident in Southland, •"vho arrived in Dunedin on Thursday, informed a Daily Times reporter that many of the oat crops in the South were extraordinarily heavy—so heavy, in some cases, that they were lying down, and will •be difficult to cut. Southland, he added, would have a record season. Tho harvest will be earlier than usual. The grain is filling up splendidly and fast ripening. The turnip crops are particularly promising, ' notably so about Edendale. In the Tokomairiro district seme of the grain is already in the stook.