The Waimate Plains.
DISASTROUS DROUGHT. fBT TELEGRAPH.) (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Manaia, January 23. Harvesting operations are going on briskly throughout the district. The weather is favorable for grain, but not for grass. A very fair quantity of w'neac and oats has been grown on the Waimata Plains, and larger crops about Hawera and Normanby than ever before. One settler, Mr Caverhill, late of .Canterbury, has about 1000 acres of whea?, oats, and linseed. The yields willbe very high. Wheat will probably average throughout the district 'thirty to forty bushels, and oats forty to sixty bushels. If dry weather continues graziers will suffer severely! The loss along this coast may be reckoned at tens of thousands. The white settlers do not remember having seen such a long spell of drought during any previoup season, : .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 51, 24 January 1883, Page 2
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133The Waimate Plains. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 51, 24 January 1883, Page 2
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