RAINFALL IN FEBRUARY
INTERESTING FIGURES (United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Mr D. C. Bates, ‘Director of the Meterological Office, supplies the following particulars of the rainfall of the Dominion for the month of. February. The month’s total rainfall was above the average on all the Western Coast, and in the high country of the South, 28.82 inches being recorded at Arthur's Pass, but on the East Coast of both Islands the rainfall was below the mean, for example at Napier 0.72 inches fell, which is 72 per cent, below mean, and at Christchurch 0.27 inches for the month, which is 84 per cent, less than the mean of former years.
“A remarkable feature in Canterbury was the heavy rain in the high back country, which caused the rivers to flood, 'though the weather was dry on me plains and tho Waimakiriri broke through its banks on the night of 23rd February.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 7 March 1925, Page 4
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152RAINFALL IN FEBRUARY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 7 March 1925, Page 4
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