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_The Evening Post_, 30 November 1923:
      ANXIETY FOR GRAIN CROPS
       TOO MUCH DRY WEATHER
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
                        ASHBURTON, This Day.
  Anxiety is felt for the #grain #crops owing to the recent dry, hot spell. Unless the #weather breaks soon, #oats will be ready to harvest before Christmas, with a light crop; while #wheat, of which much is spring sown and backward, promises to ripen off with only a 60 per cent. average yield. Pastures are also affected. One live stock man stated that a day’s soaking rain would benefit him a hundred sterling [£100 = ca. $12,000 today].
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