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Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 538, 1 September 1897, Page 3

A resident in Moonlight Valley, Macrae'* Mat, Otago, write* a* follow* : —“ Thin ih a terrible year down thi* way. it i* now over twelve month* aiuec it rained here, the lant time being in July, 1890, and a* yet we have had only a *hght fall of *riow, no that it all disappeared in the morning. Now it i* weed time, and farmei*are often at their wit*' end* to know what to do. Down Oaumru way the farmer* Mowed their winter wheat and it never came away owing to the drought, and the held* had to be ploughed up and renown. A *ea*en like this ia not within the memory of anyono here. I tell you iti* getting Heriou*. Nor in that all, for the people * health i* being affected, due, l auppose, to no rain having fallen to purify the air. A considerable number of people huvo died in Dunedin, and the doctor* arc kept very bu*y both in town and country."