DROUGHT IN CANTERBURY.
Messrs Soiuer. of Cambridge, who have lately made a tour 0 f the Dominion in their Ford ear. say it is lamentable to wtness the dearth of herbage in Canterbury, where they have had drought for neatly two years: end in the northern ]>art of that <listn’ct people drive their cattle slowly along the roads in order that they might get what little gras's showing thereon. In lower Can. terbury irrigation is used. watertares crossing the roads about "very mile. The best-k>oking country* they saw on their tour was near Dnnnevirke, and the best roads were in the neighbourhood <f Hawera, where thev are asphalted an<i tarred right out into the country. The Titioklira iiiill, between Taupo and Napier, wji'eli was formerly the diced of motorists, lias lieen graded and tie. via ted nnt 1 it is hardly percept-* able.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5362, 21 February 1916, Page 3
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