RAIN MAKING EXPERIMENTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8899, 20 August 1907, Page 2

RAIN MAKING EXPERIMENTS.

Press Association O amaru, August 19. Heavy rains, the best for the past two - years, have fallen in this district, the ground being well saturated along the coast. The rain started about 8 o’clock on Sunday night and has continued more or less heavily up till the present time. The back parts of the district were, however, not touched, and the rain-making detachment visited the stations where it was intended to explode the dynamite and guncotton when a favourable opportunity occurred. _ Three or tour shots were lived and it is said that these were followed by rain. It may be explained, however, that the wind which had previously been blowing from the north-east veered to the south-east carry i n S the coast rain clouds over the dry country to the hills beyond. The experiments therefore determine nothing so far as the 1 use of explosives for rain-making is con--1 corned. About two inches of rain had | fallen in a district abdut live miles from the locality of the explosions before they i took place. It is intended to make further j experiments at the next favourable opporI tanity. _______