Where it Rains.
Easily the wettest place in New Zealand last year, according to rainfall figures just published by the Meteorological Office, was the Homer Tunnel. The rain gauges there recorded 380.69 inches of rain falling on 207 days, or nearly ten times the average annual rainfall experienced in Masterton. Milford Sound had 268.78 inches. That cornei- of New Zealand is easily the wettest place in the Dominion, and quite a number of places on the West Coast had rainfalls of between 150 and 200 inches. The South Island, in addition to' producing Now Zealand's wettest area, also produces the driest. Several places in Otago and Southland bad less than 20 inches of rain during the year. Alexandra being the driest of all with a mere 14 36 inches.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1941, Page 4
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129Where it Rains. Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1941, Page 4
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