RAINFALL RECORDS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21978, 30 December 1936, Page 6

RAINFALL RECORDS

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TO THE EDITOS OF TUB PBKSS. Sir,—As it is stated in to-day's issue of "The Press" that "1936 has the distinction of being the wettest year ever recorded in Christchurch." it is not ■without interest to know that at the meeting in Sydney in 1887 of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science a paper was read before the chemistry section by Mr George Gray. F.C.S.. lecturer on chemistry, School of Chemistry, Lincoln, New Zealand, bearing the title, "On the dissolved matter contained in raiYi water collected at Lincoln, Canterbury," in which the following passage occurs:— "The rainfall of Lincoln recorded tince the establishment of the school, together with that |of Christchurch, which is about 14 miles distant, is shown hereunder:— TABLE I. RAINFALL OF CANTERBURY

For the Christchurch results we are indebted to Mr J. B. Stansell. late Government meteorological observer, who gives the average annual rainfall for 24 years, 1864 to 1887, inclusive, as 25.288 inches, with a maximum annual rainfall in 1886 of 4.81 inches and a minimum in 1878 of 13.540 inches.—Yours, etc., E. G. HOGG. December 29. 1936.

Year. Lincoln. Ch.Ch. 1881 .. 28.071 21.73 1882 .. 25.391 20.84 1883 . . 30.330 29.71 1884 .. 28.415 26.92 1885 .. 22.130 23.01 1886 .. 35.287 41.81 1887 . . 32.890 30.01 Mean .. 28.931 27.726