QUEENSTOWN NOTES
(From Our Own Correspondent.) QUEENSTOWN, December T 2.SERIOUS DROUGHT. The present long spell of dry weather is having a serious effect on the crops throughout the district and it is feared that another fortnight without rain will ruin the grain completely. On Sunday there was every appearance of a pending change in the weather and rain fell in the evening, but there was hardly enough to dampen the ground, and hot weaiber again prevailed the, following day, with a rising barometer.-..' Inquiries in the surrounding district disclose a very grave position and the opinion is unanimous that unless the drought breaks within a fortnight' the crops: will ,be destroyed. Already they are burning up in the districts that have not the benefits of irrigation. The following are the readings taken at the Queenstown meteorological station for the seven days ended December 10: —
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22136, 14 December 1933, Page 13
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