Low January Sunshine In South Island

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32221, 13 February 1970, Page 12

Low January Sunshine In South Island

<N Z. Press Association > WELLINGTON, Feb. 11. The cloudy, wet weather in . the South Island last month (brought good pasture growth . and the drought in North .Otago and South Canterbury was now considered to be broken, the Meteorological . Office said today. , Rainfall for the month was: above average in the South; Island west of a line from: Karamea to Ashburton. The : Taieri River catchment received double the average ■ fall for January. , In parts of Waikato, how ever, it was the driest Janu ; I ary for many years. Rainfall was less than halt ■ the average for January west of the main North Island' ranges, north of Taupo and ■ also in central Hawke’s Bay.. I and parts of Nelson and Marl ' j borough. Northern Northland, parts jof Hawke's Bay and Waikato'

I all had less than half an inch of rain. i In January the North i Island had sunny, dry weailther, leading to a-Shortage; ),of feed in many areas. i Sunshine was above aver ■; ? age in the North Island and Ilin Nelson and Marlborough; The rest of the South island; .-had below-average hours of 11 sunshine. 11 Record low hours of. Janti-i J ary sunshine were recorded . in Dunedin (120 hours), In.ivercargill (124) and Timaru! (138).

■; . ' ' ' ' Mr G. K. Armstrong, of I Dunedin, was elected presiI;dent of the New Zealand Institution of Engineers at its II annual conference yesterday, i . Mr R. A. Smith, of Auckland . was elected vice president! and Mr F. P. S. Lu, of Christ-1 .- church, is a member of the )l council of 13.—(P.A.) ;