HEAVY DAMAGE TO WHEAT.
(Pjtb Press Association.) ASHBURTON, Mat 7. It has been raining almost without '« break since Thursday night. Many ;ijbotpja.th& are fl»jode>d >and taxis are busy conveying people to business. Conditions are very exceptional for this dry district. The four days rainfall is 6.42 in. The fall for the last twentyfour hours totals 4.58 in, and it is still raining. Rakaia reports 4.80 in for the last seventeen hours, and Methven 6.00 in fot the last few days. Met-hven reports extensive damage to wheat stacked in paddocks. Owing to the tardy settlement of the wheat selling scheme, millers are buying only from hand to mouth, and consequently farmers have been unable to effect sales, and have stacked wheat in sacks in paddocks under covers adequate flor an ordinary rainfall, but quite inadequate for this deluge. The losses will probably be serious.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19230507.2.41.1
Bibliographic details
Star (Christchurch), Issue 17034, 7 May 1923, Page 7
Word Count
143HEAVY DAMAGE TO WHEAT. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17034, 7 May 1923, Page 7
Using This Item
Star Media Company Ltd is the copyright owner for the Star (Christchurch). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Star Media. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in