A phenomenon rarely seen in latitudes as high as that of New Zealand attracted much wondering attention in Christchurch on Thursday evening, when City workers on the way home at about 5.30 were surprised to see three apparent suns in the western sky. These appeared. through the banks df cloud above the western iori on. Although remarkably novel to those in the temperate zones, these phenomena, known as parhelia, are well known to the scientific world and are of common occurrence in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. They are due to the refraction of the sun’s light "•used by ice particles suspended in ;lie air. resulting in the formation ol a number of halos. The phenomenon on Thursday evening> it is thought may have been due to refraction of light in suspended dust clouds.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1928, Page 8
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