CROPS IN DANGER
NO RAIN IN MARLBOROUGH
DRIEST SEASON FOR YEARS [ Per Press Association. ] BLENHEIM, Nov. 4. Unless soaking rain falls within a week live thousand acres of crops in Marlborough will be virtually ruined in consequence of a prolonged spell of dry weather. It is six weeks since rain exceeding a fraction of an inch has fallen and the gauging for nine weeks tovals only 164 points. October contributed only 17 points, being the driest October since 1914. The total rainfall for the year to date is 17.34 inches.
Agricultural farmers and pastoralists alike are worried, but the main anxiety is felt by growers of peas, wheat, barley, cats and small seeds. Fortunately, in one sense, the acreage under crop is smaller than usual this year on account of a general turnover to sheep in consequence of greater assurance of good prices for meat ana wool, but the drought threat, all the same, represents a serious menace to the district’s income from ths approaching harvest. According to merchants and farmers interviewed to-day much is expected of the irrigation scheme for the Wairau plain, which the Public Works Department has been investigating during the past two years.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 263, 5 November 1937, Page 7
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