LOSS EXCEEDS £l00,000

Patea Mail, 2 March 1936, Page 4

LOSS EXCEEDS £loo,ooo

STORAL IN ASHBURTON DISTRICT HEAVIEST rOb OVER -’0 YEAES. '.rhe loss to wheal-growers in Ashburton county as the result of the recent ruins,- which were the heaviest in any February since 1914, is estiinated at well over .£IOO,OOO. AJoro than! half the wheat not. threshed before the rain has sprouted badly, many sheaves being a solid mass of tangfed shoots. It is said to be (it only for feed for pigs, and tlic.ro are not enough pigs to eat it. The. opinion is held that importation. at an' early date is certain!. One of 'the greatest; from the damage is that more than half the growers have no seed, and merchants arc also without stocks, as all the good wheat has been sent to the mills and seed requirements, are not made up till later in. the year. The crop this year has been unusually heavy.