WHEAT CROPS AFFECTED
SERIOUS LOSSES TO FARMERS.
ASHBURTON, 7th May. It has been raining almost without a ■break since Thursday night. Many footpaths are- flooded, and t'asis are busy conveying people to business. The conditions are very exceptional for this dry district. The four days' rainfall totals 6.43 inches, and for the last twenty-four hours 4.58 inches. It is still raining. Rakaia reports 4.80 inches in the last seventeen hours, and Jlethven 6.50 inches for the last few, days. Methven reports extensive damage to wheat which is stacked in paddocks owing to the tardy settlement of the wheatselling scheme. Millers are buying only from hand to mouth, consequently farmers are unable to effect sales. Wheat stacked in sacks in paddocks, under covers, is adequate protection against ordinary rainfall, but quite inadequate against this deluge. The losses will probably be serious...
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 108, 8 May 1923, Page 4
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140WHEAT CROPS AFFECTED Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 108, 8 May 1923, Page 4
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