SHOWERY WEEK-END.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 83, 10 April 1922, Page 2

SHOWERY WEEK-END.

MOKK THAN' TWO JNX'HES OK P.AIX. More I nan I wo inches uf rain fell in Au.lJtiinl o\cr the week-end, as recorded ni tin- Albert I'ark •iliiervj-.tOTy, by the oliicial Government observer. Mr. F. A. K. Burnell. I'or the 24 hours eiidiijo at !) a.m. vestcrday 1.47 iiwiies were re™:sten*d. and from then iini.il !' a.m. to-day another .30 inches fell. The fall tie-run after mi'lnijfht on Satfittlay. and in a short time it had set in with a heavy downpour that continued with little abatement until after sunrise. During those six hour.s almost 1J inches of rain fell, and it did not clear up until nparlv eijrlib o'clock. The oilicers of the steamer (Cornwall state that they were proceeding up channel past Itafigitoto Island: early, but they could sec no sitrn of land ravin*: t» tin- thick rain. I'el'ore it ilea red t:[i they met pilot boat, which was regarded v? a lucky <.ham-e under, the The adverse cnnrlitions also slig-htlv elciiiycri the arrival of the Arahura, from (iisborne. ami the Taim.i from W'ellinjrton. The W'aihora. enmin*; from Nauru, took advantage of the northerly wind, anil arrive*! this afternoon three hours curlier than she had hoon orpected to. Ihe wind to-day was more in the raft than yesterday and the sky brighter.