WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact
Although the rain falling in and around Betoota today ‘inconveniences’ Noah Jones, he acknowledges that “we need it.”
The middle-aged number cruncher and co-founder of Parker & Jones in Betoota Groves told our reporters that he doesn’t like the wet weather at all.
“Well look, people might say, Noah, you live in a newly built project home out on the up and coming Golf Course estate with a drive in garage, you spend all your time in an air-conditioned office and your exercise consists of a Saturday round of golf, how can you say the weather affects you?”
“But it does. It’s a bloody pain when I step out for a coffee or head down to Charcoal Chens for lunch, but I’m not gonna whine about it today, because this rain will be bloody good for our farmers,” he said.
Jones told us that he is fully aware that it’s been a reasonably dry patch for the people putting food on our tables, and that although he prefers a sunny day, he is thankful for the sprinkling.
“I am mates with a lot of these farmers. I do the books for a stack of them and I know first hand how hard they are feeling the pinch,” said the business owner, who price gouges farmers because he is one of the only bookkeepers in town.
“I’ll pop out later this arvo and check the old rain gauge and see how many mils we got. Hopefully, we can get a bit tonight as well. There is nothing like the sound of rain on a hot tin roof aye.”
