PARCHED AREA
. MINISTER’S INSPECTION, CONDITIONS IN MARLBOROIJ(jiL DISMAL PANORAMA. (Per Press Association. —Copyright.) BLENHEIM, This Day. Tho Minister of Lands, the Hon. E. A. Ransom, spent yesterday in the sunparched Awatere district, and confessed that ho had never seen anything so distressing as the conditions in .the Starborougb, Richmond Brook and Blind River regions and in -parts of the Flaxhourne area. The'party. r .passed farms whore sheep were huddled roundwindmills and empty drinking troughs, or travelling in single file along fonee lines in a vain search for water. In all directions wore met farm carts being used to convoy water from ‘the dwindling Awatere River. From Lion’s Back Hill there was a dismal panorama, the -effects of-the dry spell being -plainly visible over a.wide.area, -.- Denuded flats and hillsides had replaced tho scene which usually delights visitors, the old-time view of flourishing farm lands; hayiug.Aglven way to a scene'bf desolation, the only green objects being occasional plantations. Lake Grassmere- was bone dry, though a shimmering mirage/gays a vivid illusion of a wide expanser'of water. . A....' U
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Northern Advocate, 23 March 1934, Page 7
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175PARCHED AREA Northern Advocate, 23 March 1934, Page 7
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