Earthquakes and Weather
Because the weather in Wairoa on Tuesday night and yesterday morning was unusually mild for this season of the year, some people were heard to remark that it was "earthquake weather." A prominent New Zealand seismologist declared some little time ago that there was .no connection whatever between earthquakes and the weather. Anybody who could accurately predict an earthquake, he said, would be a "made man.” Beautification in Wairoa Often commented upon for its beauty in flowers and its collection of native trees and ihrubs, Coronation Square, Wairoa, is now undergoing its seasonal overhaul. lhe curator Mr. G. Jane, has a full programme for the season’s planting of beds and borders, and it is expected that the spring showing will be a brilliant one. A visitor to Wairoa yesterday remarked that the jacaranda tree, on the pathway to the square, was one of the finest specimens he had Been.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20825, 2 July 1942, Page 6
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152Earthquakes and Weather Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20825, 2 July 1942, Page 6
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