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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 9 October 1928, Page 9

The dust clouds reported as passing Sydney out over the Tasman Sea apparently reached New Zealand during the week-end, states a Blenheim message. Unusually dense black clouds swept over Marlborough on Monday morning, but the threatened deluge of rain resolved into heavy showers which sprinkled motor-cars and roofs with a thin coating of mud, doubtless due to the dust carried by the storm from Australia. For an hour or two the dense masses of cloud made it so dull that lights had to be used in shops and offices in Blenheim.

Although the area, contributing to the export of dairy produce, from the port of Wanganui is no greater thisseason than last, the grading figures at the Castled iff cool (Stores show! a phenomena 1 ! increase in production. The returns show that, whereais 10,882 boxes of butter were graded at the port in September, 1927, the total for -eptem.ber last was 12,074, an increase of HP2 boxes.. Similarly, bn comparison with the 3812 crates of drees© graded in September, 1927, the total for the same month this year was 5670, an incicas? of 1858 orates. In butter-fat equivalent the figures far 1927 represent 791.8801 b, as compared with 972.2501 b last month, an increase of 22.77 eer cent, of dairy produce. Tire l increase is ascribed to. improved farming methods in the districts’concerned, the ' factors being better feeding and culling.