METEOROLOGICAL.
Mr VV. F. Day, Brooklyn, Ga!dstone, reports an follows: —The total rainfall for August was 1.98 inches. Rain fell on fifteen days. The maximum fall was 51 points on the UOth, and the minimum was .01 inches on the 13th and 22nd. The total rainfall for August, 1907, 2.30 inches on fifteen days. Mr J. C. Boddington reports as fi 1lows:—The total rainfall on the Upper Plain for eight months is 23.84 inches, as against 27.99,, 28.73, 31.13 and 41.16 for the corresjonding period in 1904, 19C5, 1906 and 1907. From this it will be seen that so far the rainfall this year is f)Jj inches short of the average for the previous four years, excluding the phenomenal fall for hiht year; if that is included, then it is over 19 inches short of the average for the period in quesI tion.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9182, 3 September 1908, Page 5
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143METEOROLOGICAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9182, 3 September 1908, Page 5
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