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Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 67, 20 March 1911, Page 7

It is pleasing in these days of drought and almost universal pessimism to find a few men who have a causa for thankfulness—and acknowledge it—(says the Oamaru Mail). Some of these men are interested in firms dealing: in,.windmills. It is . stated that'the drought has this year j rendered pumping plants necessary to secure water, even for domestic Burposes, and the most convenient motive power has been provided in the form of windmills. A visitor to Oamaru who travelled up from the south the other day remarked that the number of windmills of apparently recent erection within view of the railway line V7»* really astonishing,