WESTERLY WINDS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 155, 29 December 1910, Page 8

WESTERLY WINDS.

After a demonstration in the northwest yesterday, the wind worked into the south-west quarter over-night, knocked a few points off the thermometer, and shook out some rain in the vicinity of Wellington. Tho showers were curiously local, comparatively. They fell between Castlecliff and Kaikoiua, chiefly' along the East Coast. v There was a little rain also at the lower end of the South Island, and in the great bulk of the country the morning was fine. The wind, says Mr. Bates, will probably veer back to the north-west by to-mor-row evening. By midday tho southerly 's energy was diminished, and the weather, after uncertain fits of laughing and crying, seemed to be settling into a decorous mood. The Meteorological Office has received a valuable book from the Solar Physics Committee which has been working on behalf of the British Government. The volume gives the surface air circulation of the Southern Hemisphere, mean pressures, tho directions of anti-cyclones, and meteorological records. Ths information has been obtained from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the various South Polar expeditions. An interesting plan shows the South Polar area as a zone of high pressure, from which the anti-cyclones of low pressure radiate. It is like one cog-wheel, working a system of wheels, revolving from left to right (the westerly systems of wind). These circular sweeps cf low pressure, of which the upper halves run ovei Ne\> Zealand, have a diameter of about 1500 miles. The new book is one of a series setting out the weather of the world .

George Morecroft, a tailor, who wae admitted to the hospital about ten days ago, suffering from 'injuries to his throat said to have been self-inflicted, is reported to bo making an excellent recovery. Describing Canada's grain fields the special correspondent of the "Sydney Morning Herald states that in 190*9 the Dominion's wheat yield aggregated 166,744,000 bushels, from an area of 7.750.000 acrea, au increase over the preceding year of 54 million bushels, and a million acres. 1809 wae the Dominion's record to date, for the present year found the west involved in a dry season, in which a condition of affairs not far removed from drought adversely affected the crops. A yield of some 125 million bushels was achieved, nevertheless It is iigures of this character that account for Canada's jubilant proclamation of itself to-day, and her unbounded belief in the future. The 166 million yield of 1909 represented the fruit, as stated, of 1\ million acres of country, an average yield per acre of 21^ bushels. But the estimate of Professor Saunders, an eminent, authority, assures Canada that the cultivable wheat lands of the west comprise 171 million acre&. The 7J million acres now under contribution are thus the merest preliminary hint of the possibilities. Canadians firmly believe that the near future will see her with 50 million acres sown in wheat ; and that area,, even at an average yield of 15, will produce 750 million bushels. Purl her, of her total 1909 yield, Canada had 95,000,000 bushels available for export—no small conty billion towards the sustenance of Great Britain. And wheat spelta wealth as well as sustenance, for the value of the ISO 9 yield was 141 million dollar*), an increase of 50 million dollaifc mi that of the preceding \env. Similarly, her other crops showed solid increase of value in every direction, the chief of them oats, valued at 122 million dollars and hay valued at 132 million dolhus representing, respectively, in creaot* of 26 million and 1U million dull'ais. .V.coidms; to th< v Waiiarnpa A£<\ tho season toi diy fjimeiM in Hip Bn.'.h di;--trict is stated to have b(\.-n an unnsn.-illv gocd one, and t!>e iclurn f > cn\_ the v hn'f aro \ cii satisfactory. I Mrs. IS. Schuuo vail hold a public meetlag At Wise fisatujy. JJaji tka eie&lng, j