A MILD MONTH

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 454, 8 September 1928, Page 12

A MILD MONTH

NOT TOO MUCH RAIN IN AUGUST Press Association WELLINGTON, Friday. “August was on the whole a satisfactory month as regards rainfall, especially in view of the distribution during the preceding month,” says the Government Meteorologist, Dr. Kidson, in his report on the weather in August. In most of the Auckland Province, where there was little need for it, the rain was below normal. In Nelson, and in parts of Otago and Southland, too, there was a deficiency, and good rains will be wanted soon in these districts, especially the first, if the season is to commence well. Elsewhere, registrations were mainly above the average, and much good will be done. Most districts experience remarkably uniform temperatures during the month, and the absence of extreme cold gave an effect of mildness, even where the mean temperature was below the average. The growth has on the whole been good, and although there is still some shortage of feed in some of the parts which experienced a very dry summer, conditions generally are favourable, and stock and crops are doing well.