THE PRESENT DROUGHT.
THE WORST ON RECORD. [BY TELEGRAPH —SPECIAL TO THE STAR.] WELLINGTON, This Day. Further evidence of the unusual severity of the di’ought in the South Island is provided by Mr Win. C. Kensington 1.5.0, (Under-Secretary for Lands), wdio has just made a complete tour of the West Coast. He has never known the trouble to be so general, all parts of the South Island, except Southland being affected. “The oldest inhabitant fails to find a parallel for the drought which has afflicted Westland this season,” says Mr Kensington, “There has never been so small a flow in the Grey and Hokitika rivers. At Reefton the water fiow r reservoir is only at the disposal of the people for an hour or two each morning. Greymouth and Hokitika feel the scarcity of water too, and even so far south as Martin’s Bay, close to Milford Sound, the dry season has been exceptional. One good result, however, has been the splendid “burns” which have occurred in the Buller Valley and its qffsohots. About 10,000 acres have been burned, and when the land is down in grass it will give a great impetus to the dairying industry.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 March 1911, Page 2
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