THE WEATHER IN WHANGAREI.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9238, 28 June 1893, Page 6

THE WEATHER IN WHANGAREI.

No adjective in our language would be Blirong enough to execrate the weather experienced here tor the last tea weeks, and this month has been the worst of all. Only three really dry days out of 24. Already the rainfall exceeds the average for June, which makes it the twelfth month, bar one, of excessive rainfall. And still there has been no very heavy continuous rain, but only just enough to keep the mud liquid without washing it away. A number of your correspondents are beginning to think that this is notßuch a good climate after all. Now 17 years ago I was some days in company with an old gentleman named Thwaites, belonging to Ngunguru, who came here in 1830. He had a very remarkable memory, and could give day and date for everything, so I took the opportunity of learning from him what he remembered about the weather for 46 years. He assured me that for the first 35 years he was in the country the weather was much more regular than what it was afterwards. That fine weather used to set in about September or October, and last up to about Christmas. Then after the Christinas floods fine weather set in again, and lasted up to May. The seasons for harvesting could be relied on almost to a certainty, and when the wet harvest seasons commenced, 28 years ago, the Maoris said it was a curse brought upon the country by the introduction of white men. Many of us remember the last eight or ten years of this regular weather, and there is no doubt my old friend was right. However, it is now about time that we got another 35 years of good weather, and it will take all that to put us square.— Correspondent.]