AUGUST WEATHER
Except for frequent rain in Auckland province, August was a favourable month, states the Director of Aleteorological Services, Dr. M. A. F. Barnett, in reporting on the weather during the month.
“Cultivation is well up to schedule, and crops continue to make excellent progress,” he reports. “The feed position las been very good, the general standard of the health of stock being maintained during the winter. The very wet conditions prevailing on August 26 and 27 on the east coast of the North Island, however, caused many deaths among newlyborn lambs. “Rainfall was iu considerable excess over the Auckland province, while more moderate surpluses were received in
Hawke’s Bay. Elsewhere rainfall was below normal, with largest percentage deliciences on low’ levels between Kaikoura and Dunedin,
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 292, 8 September 1942, Page 2
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127AUGUST WEATHER Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 292, 8 September 1942, Page 2
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