SOUTHLAND NOTES.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) INVERCARGILL, April 11. One of the leading business men in town, speaking to a News reporter this morning, said that he estimated his losa through closing last Saturday at £6O. That day, he said, was one of the best in the year for business, and the money thus lost was never made up, as it was spent mainly by country people. If Saturday closing were again proposed he was sure that it would meet with almost universal opposition. A farmer from the Winton district informed a News reporter this morning that the continued wet weather had so softened the ground that he found it impossible to cut his crop of oats. An endeavour had been made, but it was found that no progress was possible, as the binder sank deep in the ground, making huge ruts from which the horses were unable to drag the machine.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3031, 17 April 1912, Page 23
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