NEED OF RAIN
CONDITIONS AT FOXTON RABBITERS HAMPERED Reference to the very dry summer" in the Foxton district was contained in the report of Mr. D. R. Barron, inspector of the Manawatu Rabbi!, Board, presented at a meeting last week. He said that on the greater part of the board's area very little rain had fallen, with the result that the country is drier at this period of thu year than it has ever been since the board was formed. Conditions such as the present ones generally existed toward the middle of February, said the inspector, and the work of rabbit destruction has been much harder to carry out during the month for these reasons. The ground had been too dry for successful trapping to be done and trapping operations were suspended for a week to Bee if conditions would improve. The rain that had fallen had made practically no difference a:ad the work had been resumed as there was so mufch ground to be got over and no time could be lost.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21404, 31 January 1933, Page 5
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173NEED OF RAIN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21404, 31 January 1933, Page 5
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