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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3374, 6 October 1931, Page 4

There has been considerable mortality in dairy herds in Taranaki during the past month, due to the unusual severity and prolongation of the winter and the shortage of feed, and the milk supply is being adversely affected. The fact is that many old and experienced farmers were caught napping; they provided insufficient feed for a hard and long season, such as has been experienced. During the-past few days the grass has come away rapidly, and it requires only another few days of fine weather to give strength and nutriment to the pastures to enable the herds to make up leeway.

A recently-initiated communal garden scheme at Rotorua is being entered into with spirit by the unemployed of the district, and a representative local committee has been formed. Two areas of land in the district have been secured, and these will be cultivated and garden produce grown, to be distributed later among the families of the unemployed. The scheme is the result of the gradual reducing of the Unemployment Board’s grant to the district. With less work offering, many of the unemployed feel that the position is such that even the growing of a supply of vegetables is doing something to “keep the wolf from the door.”