THE WEATHER Forecast: Fair To Fine

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 September 1947, Page 2

THE WEATHER Forecast: Fair To Fine

The following weather forecast was issued by the Meteorological Office, Wellington, at noon today:— Situation: A vigorous cold front is moving off the North Island; an anticyclone is advancing across the Tasman sea. Forecast to 5 p.m., tomorrow: Moderate to fresh easterly winds, turning south-westerly tomorrow afternoon; weather becoming fair to fine generally; tempertures cold with some frosts. Further outlook: Fair. LOCAL RECORDINGS The following meteorological recordings were taken at Greymouth at 9 o’clock this morning:— Barometer 29.58 in (1001.8 mil Maximum air temp, past 24hrs . 53.0 Minimum air temperature .... 43.0 Minimum, grass temperature ..37.4 Wind East (fresh breeze) Sky .. Overcast Bar Considerable sea River 5-knot ruri Rainfall 1.65 in Rainfall to date ~ 53. Min Surishine yesterday Nil

Sunshine to date this year .. 629.2 hr The depth on the bar at high water yesterday was 24ft 4in. ..;

Experience is not what happens to a mart. It, is what a man does with what happens to him.—Aldous Huxley.

Possession of Pistols . At Wellington yesterday Edward Hans Tui Benseman was fined £lO in the Magistrate’s Court for being in unlawful possession of two .45 Colt pistols and 922 rounds of ammunition. Sub-Inspector J. Abel said that the pistols were obtained from Americans in 1942. , Mr D. \Y. Virtue, representing defendant, said Benseman was interested in ballistics, and he had secured the guns for,.experiments. He was a keen sportsman and a scientific inventor. —(P.A.)