BENEFICIAL RAIN

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXI, Issue 2779, 24 November 1931, Page 4

BENEFICIAL RAIN

EFFECTS IN THE WAIKATO THE FALL IN CAMBRIDGE. The heavy rain on Saturday will prove of inestimable value to Waikato pastures, and despite the fact that the cold wind of Sunday will undo to a limited extent the benefit received, it will have the desired effect of bringing on hay crops and pastures recently cut for ensilage. The cold dry weather in September has been responsible for the -lateness of the season and the downpour of Saturday could not have come at a more opportune time. More root crops have been grown this year than for some seasons, and they will also largely benefit by ■ this thorough soaking the ground has sustained. A nuiriSor of farmers this season will be i'd\ L»\» to a greater extent than in the past lour years on soot crops for £ecdlfi"£ out in the winter. In Cambridge the rainfall for the 24 hours up till 9 a.m. on Sunday morning read .78in. .Since that time only traces have been recorded at the weather station in the Domain grounds. In Otlw: Centres. From many centre? including Pukekohe, Whangarei, Opotiki. New Plymouth and Pal North, heavy falls have been reported and promise to stimulate growth to no uncertain extent. At Whangarei for 2-1 hours ending 9 a.m., on Sunday, .Ooin. of rain fell. At Palmcrston North the rain was the first experienced for three weeks and between midnight and 9 a.m. on Sunday, 1.13 in. of rain fell.