HAWKES BAY DROUGHT
RAILWAY CONCESSION
Oil production of a certificate signed by an officer of the Department of Agriculture, hay, straw in bales, chaff, turnips, mangolds, and green fodder, puchased by bona fide farmers and to be used exclusively' by the consignee for keeping alive stock starving by reason of the drought insHawkes-Bay district, will be carried at half the classified rates from stations on the North Island main line and branches to stations between. Dannevirke and Napier inclusive..
. Hawkes Bay, always a dry province between the stations mentioned at this time of year, has experienced a particularly dry season, and stock has been selling at very low prices. The unusual shortage of feed was very evident to those visiting Hawkes Bay during: the earthquake period,, both the condition of stock and their listlessness attesting to the lack of feed on the baked hillsides of the pastoral area.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 44, 21 February 1931, Page 6
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148HAWKES BAY DROUGHT Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 44, 21 February 1931, Page 6
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