TOKAORA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 January 1925, Page 8

TOKAORA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) NOTES AND COMMENTS. In my haste in wining my previous ceiicxioucioiui to your coiUinns a oie,lOuKect several items, neie tney -..e . .December, i92s:. —The Pokaora lecwu oi raunall is a.iU indies oil 22 m-ji. jn December, 1923, 1 .on in cues leii on 12 (lays ; .December, it/22, 2.12 l.idles on xa uays; December, 1921, -i.uo inches on lo days; December, 1926, 1.89 inches on 9 nine days.

The total number of days on which rain fell at Tokaoru, in 1024 was To; Argyle Street, Hawera, loo; Post uifice, Hawera, 198; Albert Park, Auckland, lain fell there on 196 days. The Albert- Park records extend over 60 year,-, and show an average of 43.79 inches. Hamilton has a 50.34 in. average for 25 years. At Tokaoru for 26 years prior to 1916 the average was 43.06 inches, only ,73in. below the northern city’s recorded average, and the Auckland people are continually cracking up their salubrious climate. Yet here at Tokaora, which Hawera claims as her own, we have about Die same precipitation as the well advertised northern city. The Ohawe re*4 dents should let the world know* the* possess a climate equalled by few and surpassed by none. T have ovd- th«P”«t four years’ records for .Auckland which averages 50.91 inches: Tokno*-n ’*■ average for the mi.s-t five vear« i« 48 9,3 inches. Then, aga-p*. rain fell in TQOi o*l 1.75 (lavs, in 180,3 en 160 rP,vs. in 1922 on 1 -"•8 davs in d9 0 1 on 171 davS. ’ in 1920 on 145 days.

For the first leu da vs of this mniu! (January) no rain has fallen, but <■<’ Saturday night (10th inst.l rain c ei in from the north. By 9 a.m. on Su"'Monday at the same hour 26 points of warm, wen tic rain moistened mi” soil "rid crass. TTie growth of the latter is phenomenal. MUSHROOMS. Mushrooms ought to be making their apnea-anoe. T'hev always come after a spell of very fine weather, followed by a gentle, warm downpour. There is no use looking-for this visitor aff«r a cold southerly snap. They are fair-

ly plentiful on the sandy plains >»1 Canterbury just now. PERSONAL. Mr .Fred Livingston, who has suffered agony with rheumatism, has pone to Rotorua Sanitarium for treatment. So far the results are not known. I have had a letter from Mr. T. Ennis, formerlv a tailor in business in your town. Writing from Dublin, he said he had a lot to tell me and old comrades, hut deferred the news till he arrived in Hawera early in January, 1.925. He is one of the very few survivor’s of the late 18tli Royal Irish Regiment.