MODEST WELLINGTON
AN INFERIOR-TY ...COMPLEX,
•MORE:'SUN THAN AUCKLAND
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■'oK . -WELLINGTON, August 23. Buffers from an inferior-ity-complex,” said the president of the Wellington Ompetifions Society, Mr Byron Brown, at the opening of th-s year’s festival in the Town Hall on Saturday evening. Wellington, lie said, yM/lorvved itself to suffer in this way just as Great Britain -did lie lore the i est of'Vtlie nation.?. • ,
..For spine 50 years, ito his knowledge, Mr-Brown.continued, it had been said that -there,;,wis more . sunshine in Auck/md than Wellington, which was not the case. The lowest year’s sum Line m.jWelMpgtpn than equalled Auckland’s best. It' rained -more :» Aifckland than it did in Wellington, id when 'tjie wind" .blew it blew twenty rrfiUesi an hour faster in Auc.t'and than it; did here. “I-, ptifa ;that over thej air not long 'a#},’’ Mir Brown, '“and the very day. hi friend ®aid Jokingly, “What are. tlmse-; lieif you’ve been saying about Wellington aiul Auckland?” They ate not lies. ‘ U anyone wient to Dr Kid«on the -Government,". Meteorologist, he would find out thie£|r|fh. They are statistics—facts.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1932, Page 6
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