DROUGHT IN THE NORTH.
An Auckland visitor, who has lately returned from a trip in the North, told a Herald representa tive yesterday that the district looked terribly in need of rain. The condition of the natives was very bad, for they had not the slightest idea of conforming with ordinary sanitary requirements, and would not adopt modern methods. White settlers were in difficulties in obtaining water in some cases; and he quoted an instance in which the only water available had to be obtained by means of a punt, at considerable expense, from the freshwater part of a tidal creek. The value of the supply was very questionable in reality, for the stream was being used for the Maoris for bathing, washing clothes, and other undesirable purposes. He was surprised, he said, that there was not far more cases of typhoid among the natives; and he was afraid that if the weather did not soon change the state of affairs would assume a very serious aspect.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1868, 12 March 1913, Page 6
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