DROUGHT BREAKS
RAIN IN CANTERBURY
BENEFIT TO PASTURES
BEST NE\V YEAR’S OIFT
(Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. After a few showers overnight, fairly heavy rain set in over Canterbury this morning, and continued after noon, thus breaking tho almost unprecedented drought of live weeks’ duration. The. rain is doing an immense amount of good to pastures, crops, and gardens. It is quite, the best new year’s gift tho country could have, and is worth thousands of pounds to the province. Nearly the whole of tho parched and drought-weary province shared in the rain, and reports from country districts carried a jubilant note- of _ satisfaction. There was practically no wind, and the tliirstv soil absorbed the rain as quickly as it. fell.
The rain continued intermittently throughout the forenoon. At midday the sky was still heavily overcast. F’alls of varying volume occurred over the province. In most instances the rain was steady, and gave promise of continuing.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18595, 4 January 1935, Page 11
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