WELCOME RAIN
NEW SOUTH WALES FALL DROUGHT DANGER NOT PAST SYDNEY, Dec. 2 New South Wales generally benefited from heavy and continuous rain in the week-end. Several inches foil in Sydney's catchment area and there are wide hopes that the drought has ended. The . Metropolitan Water Board, however, has announced that until there is further evidence that the drought has actually ended the rain will only mean thai no further 'restrictions on the use. of water will lie imposed. ' The rain has come too late to honefit wheat crops, but to the dairying industry and vegetable growers its value is incalculable.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23829, 3 December 1940, Page 8
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101WELCOME RAIN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23829, 3 December 1940, Page 8
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