DROUGHT IN THE SOUTH.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12411, 22 March 1911, Page 5

DROUGHT IN THE SOUTH.

A DESPERATE SITUATION

STOCK SUFFER SEVERELY,

t Special to Herald.) DUNEDIN, this day. The drought continues. The position is getting desperate. 11l Southland last week the fall averaged a couple of inches, but m the greater part of Otago there fell rain just sufficient to moisten the ground. Stock is suffering severely. Tiio chairman of the Dunedin City Council Water Committee says that the storage supply . has diminished by ovcrj thrco million gallons during the last few days, and at present there is a storage of some forty-three million gallons. Extraordinary supplies, such as church organs and passenger lifts, are to bo cut off from to-day. Church organs will bo supplied on Sunday only. Stables will be supplied for an hour and a half a day, and warehouse lifts for one hour. A -firm m Crawford street which has an artesian boro say that since they have granted permission to the public to avail themselves of the bountiful supply of water the firm's factory has become a place of pilgrimage. Hundreds of persona mo to be seen bearing away with them a supply of water, s6mo with billies, some with bottles and jars, whilo others bring a hogshead of ample dimensions. Tho gift of water has already been a boon to many, $nd will be even more esteemed if the drought continues. '