PROTRACTED DROUGHT
POSITION IN BRITAIN
(British Official Wireless.) 1 press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright
RUGBY, September 6. la a statement with regard to the water supplies affected by the continuance of dry weather, the Minister for Health (Sir Hilton Young), after commenting that the drought was sufficiently serious to call fbr the conservation of supplies by all responsible local authorities, stated that the shortage in the domestic water supplies was not so serious as in the drought periods of the summers of 1921 and 1929. The most serious shortage was in some of the rural areas, which at present had to rely on shallow wells and small surface supplies—for example, in some parts of Lancashire and North Wales.
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Evening Star, Issue 21511, 8 September 1933, Page 7
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116PROTRACTED DROUGHT Evening Star, Issue 21511, 8 September 1933, Page 7
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