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Northern Advocate, 18 July 1933, Page 8

For two places to be within a niile or two of each other, and one to have an annual rainfall of about 120 inches and the other to be a place where it practically never rains at all, is, to say the least of it, unusual. Such conditions, however, are to be found on the top of Kilavea, said Dr. H. T. Stearns when lecturing in Wellington on that remarkable Hawaiian volcano. The trade winds impinge upon the mountain, and on the side that, gets the rain brought by these winds luxuriant jungle growth occurs right up to the edge of teh crater. No rain, however, falls on the other side, where there is practically an arid desert.