“This Christmas was the worst ever experienced at Rotorua as far as weather was concerned,” said Mr F. W. Manton, who returned to Wellington from a motoring tour in the north the other day. "I was there for twelve days, covering Christmas and the New Year, and on only three days could the weather bo called fine. I have never, experienced such rain in Wellington. It came down in torrents, and the main road past Prince’s gate was like a river for a part o‘f the time, and the sight of people leaving their cars and wading almost, knee-deep in the water, became quite a common one. There were at one time, over 350 cars at the motor camp (off the Whaka Road), but the number would have been considerably greater had all the cats which started out, been able to. get through.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5076, 17 January 1927, Page 3
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