STOCK TRAINS.
HEAVY ARRIVALS FROM HAWKE’S BAY.
The prolonged drought in the Hawke’s Bay district is causing grave concern to farmers in that quarter and evidence of its effect is seen in the unusually large number of stock trains arriving at Palmerston North from up the Napier line. Frequently of late long trains of loaded sheep trucks have been observed passing through the Square, many of them continuing later up tho Main Trunk to districts where feed is somewhat more plentiful. A local farmer, in conversation with a “Standard” reporter yesterday 6tated: “I have more feed than I know what do with and only the other day I accepted for grazing a hundred well conditioned bullocks acquired by a local dealer in Hawke’s Bay.” It would appear that the Manawatu or certain parts of it at least,, is much more favourably situated just now than Hawke’s Bay, where no rain of any value to farmers has fallen for over two months past.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 25, 29 December 1925, Page 7
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162STOCK TRAINS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 25, 29 December 1925, Page 7
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