DOMINION NEWS
DRY SPELL IN WATRARAPA. FARMERS GRAY ELY CONCERNED, t Press Association.! WELLINGTON, Nov. 19. Farmers in iiio Wairarapa ar© facing a serious situation owing; to the prolonged dry spoil. Although the summer months have yet hardly started pastures already are drying up, and the hay crop lui a sutfered badly. Owing to tliu dryness ot the ground it is i 111 possible to bow supplementary crops. This, on top of falling prices 011 the Homo market, is causing UlO gravest concern. Heavy rain is wanted badly, but even if it copies within tile next lew days it may be too late to save the farmers from losses running into thousands of pounds. GENEROUS BEQUESTS ESTATE WORTH ABOUT £40,000 (Press Association. 3 AUCKLAND. Nov. ■ 19. It is estimated that several Auckland charibablo institutions • will benefit to the extent of approximately £17,000 under the will of tho late Air Crawford AlcClraoken, of 'Alt. Eden, a, retired farmer, wlioso estate has been sworn l'or probate purposes as being under the value of £40,000.- After payment of certain pecuniary logaeios and bequests, tho residue 1 of tho ostato is to> be held in trust for Airs McCracken for her life, and, after her death, it is to bt) divided between tho Salvation Army Homo, Auckland, thp Leslie Presbyterian Orphanngjo, and !tho Jubilee Institute for tho Blind.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11492, 20 November 1931, Page 7
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