What Readers Letters to the Editor

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23226, 13 June 1945, Page 2

What Readers Letters to the Editor

THE WEATHER Sir, —South Canterbury so far is having more than double its normal share of rain lor 1945. A return to normal conditions is desirable, but as wars and disease cannot be prevented until the cause which produces them be eliminated, neither is it possible to prevent recurring disastrous climatic conditions for a similar reason. New Zealand’s present demand is for extra wheat at a time when conditions are most unfavourable. The grower should be encouraged to the utmost, but that alone will be quite, inadequate unless he tackle the problem with determination and compassion for the needy. Weather control is probably the most important part of scientific farming and we, by desire, control our acts, prepare the soil, sow the seed and our main and final desire is, or should be, for beneficial sunshine and rain in due season. South Canterbury settlers during the last nine years seem to have been too easily stampeded by thengreatest enemy—fear. Rain, having no intelligence, is attracted or repelled by fear and demands which often produce widespread confusion and distress. Too often in the past while we slept the enemy came and either turned the tap full on, or shut it off altogether, whichever seemed most disastrous. Now that we have seen the power of creative thought demonstrated and are awake, our desire is to solve our weather problems and trust no longer to those whose objective does not tally with our fervent desires for seasonable weather so that health, harmony, peace and plenty may henceforth be our lot.—l am, etc, C. H. MASON. ”