DROUGHT AT WHANGAMATA.
[ RESIDENTS SLEDGING WATER. f [by telegraph— correspondent] WAIHI, Wednesday. According to Senior-Sergeant O'Grsdy, 3 ' who has just returned to Waihi from an 1 official visit to Whangamata, the shortage r of water for household use there is seriS ously felt by the residents. For the past 1 three or four weeks water for domestic - i purposes has had to be conveyed on ' sledges from neighbouring springs over, in ' many cases, very rough tracks. The whole [ countryside is in a more or less, dried-up condition, and tbs settlers are crying out | J for rain to renew the drought-stricken J pastures. j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17328, 27 November 1919, Page 7
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103DROUGHT AT WHANGAMATA. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17328, 27 November 1919, Page 7
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