BY IAN NIALL
THE drought continues and, although the sky has been overcast once or twice, looks like remaining for some time. Not long ago caravanners were reported to be coming to blows over empty buckets at a standpipe near their camp. Soon, as in other places, there may be severe water rationing. I visited a reservoir yesterday and saw that the level had fallen eight or ten feet in the previous three weeks. A farmer friend remarks that he has given up all hope of after-growth and although he wants dry weather for harvest he is anxious about drinking water to keep up his milk yield. It seems too much to hope that there will be rain and yet a dry harvest, for the corn ripens as the dry spell goes on. If it doesn't rain, the grazing will be seriously affected. If it does, the harvest will be hampered.
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