DAMAGE TO CROPS.
HEAVY RAIN AROUND MALVERN. Very heavy rain fell in various parts of .North Canterbury yesterday and it is feared will do great damage to standing ripe crops. It will also delay threshing foi some time as the stocks Will all have to be allowed to dry thoroughly before harvesting can be proceeded with. Round about Racecourse Hill, Waddington, Sheffield, and right up to the hills, the rainfall was very heaVv._ The creeks rose rapidly and are now in a state of flood. A paddock of wheat at WaddingtOn belonging to Mr F. Bull looked a picture lieforc the rain, hut this morning it was all lying down. It is teared that many other farmers in the surrounding districts will also suffer severe damage to their previously fine looking cr«ps. A party journeying down from the Sheffield district this morning experienced no few r er than six rmnetures in the tyres of their car. This gave them ample time to look round, and in conversation a “Star” reporter gathered from them the information that all <7oug the Springfield line the various Mill suffer material diuiui^.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16940, 15 January 1923, Page 7
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