Water polo champs

Press, 15 May 1987, Page 32

Water polo champs

. Play on the final day of the New Zealand under-18 water polo championships at Queen Elizabeth II Park pool today promises to be exciting, with the unbeaten boys* teams, Auckland and Otago, vying for first place in the last game of the roundrobin. Wellington is clear in the girls’ section with eight points but has to draw with, or beat, Auck-

land:to secure thetitle.v Yesterday Auckland boys downed Wellington, 9-4, with Wellington launching a strong attacjt in the final two quartern only to run out of. time./ Results.- #'■ f •- Boys: Southland 14, Canterbury B 3; Canterbury. A 11, Counties 3; Otago 23, Waikato 5; Auckland 9, Wellington J; Counties 11, Canterbury B. (j Girls: Wellington 22,.South-i land 4; Otago 13, Waikato 3; Auckland 9, Canterbury 4: Southland 11/Waikato 9. £

General forecast: Mainly fine in , the North Island; rain in the west of the South Island. District forecast: Canterbury: North-west-erlies and some rain about the Alps. Marlborough, Nelson: Fine and mild. Buller, Westland: Northerlies with some rain.

Tomorrow: Northerlie with rain in most districts. . , . ■ -’ ■ Extended range forecast to Tuesday: Chid southerlie with scattered rain on Sunday in Canterbury and Marlborough. Mainly fine oh Monday and Tuesday in most districts.

CHRISTCHURCH READINGS *<

Observations taken at the Meteorological Office, Christchurch Airport, yesterday. Barometer .... ,6 p.m. 11p.m. Millibars 1027.2 1027 Temperature: deg. Maximum (to 6 p.m.) .. 14 Rainfall: nun. 9 am to 11 pm ..... nil To date this month .... trace To date this year 234 To date last year 273 Average to date ...... 246 Average for May 70 Wettest May (1959) .... 198 Driest May (1960) 13 Sunshine: hrs Yesterday 7 hr 54 min To date this month .... 96 To date this year ..... 931 To date last year 930 Average for May . . . . . 125 Humidhy: Per cent at noon ..... 67 Per cent at 6 pm ... . 79 Temperatures and rainfall for the 24 hours to 9 a.m. yesterday: Maximum 20 deg, minimum 3 deg, grass 0 deg, rainfall nil. , SUN, MOON, AND TIDES Sun—Today: Rises, 7.35 am; sets, 5.16p.m. Tomorrow: Rises, 737 p.m.; sets, 5.15 p.m. Moon—Today: Rises, 65 pm; sets, 9.33 a.m. Tomorrow: Rises, 75 pm; sets, 10.48 a.m. High tide at Lyttelton—Today: 530 a.m. and 64 pm Tomorrow: 6.31 am. and 73 pm (Lake Forsyth, subtract . 60min; Akaroa, subtract 45min; Port Levy, subtract 30min; Ashburton and Rakaia, subtract 25min; Kaikoura, - add

17min; Kaiapoi and Sumner, add SOmin.) Phases of the Moen ' Last quarter: May 20. y New moon: May 28. • > First quarter June 5. ? Full moon: June 11 < .s’ NOON WEATHER . ( Auckland: 17deg., cloudy, S.W., 8 knots. ’ ' l3deg., cloudy, E, Christchurch: ISdeg., fine, N.Et, 7 knots. • - ' Dunedin: Udeg., partly cloudr S.W„ 13 knots/ WORLD WEATHER f Minimum and maximum temperatures in the main Australian cities yesterday:* Adelaide, 11, 17; Brisbane, 18, 23; Canberra, 7, T 7; Hobart, 12,17; Melbourne,.!?, 20; Perth, 10,49; Sydney, 18, Amsterdam, 5,9; Athens f>, 23; Bahrain, 26, 34; Bangkok, 26, 34; Beirut, 14, 22; Belgrade, 12, 24; Brussels, 0, 12; Buenos Aires, 8, 28; Cairo, 15, 9; Dublin, 3, 13; Helsinki, 2,7; Hong Kong, 25, 30; Honolulu, 17, 28; Islamabad, 17, 27: Jakarta, 24, 31; Kiev 8, 18; Kuala Lumpur,'24, 33; Lisbon, 14, 22; London, 5, 14; Los Angeles, 18,29; Madrid, 11,24; Manila, 24, 37; Montreal, 10, 15; Moscow, 4, 47; New Delhi, 21, 38; New York, 16, 31; Osfe, 3,11; Paris, 7, 13; Peking, 14, 28; Rome, 11, 22; San Francisco. 12, 25; Seoul, 15, 20; Singapore, 25. 31; Stockholm, 4,8; Tokyo, 20, 25; Vancouver* 7, 15; Vienna, 11, 13; Warsaw, 4, 20.