THE CROPS IN OTAGO

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12420, 9 December 1908, Page 3

THE CROPS IN OTAGO

.' [UKited Pkess Association.] .'.'.. . Dunedin, Deo. 8. Welcome falls of rain and snow were experienced in Central Otago yesterday^ and as a result the crops and mining will be .'materially, benefited in some districts'. . However, the. outlook is far. from . prcj- • mising. In tbe Ida Valley the "crops are reported, to be in a - worse 66bdition than last year,, and at . Earnscleugh and Baldhill Flat they are said to be ruined, while the continued heat . has. ripened; strawberries and cherries more quickly than was desired. , ;