POLLEN-LADEN RAIN
YELLOW LAYER ON GROUND NEW PLYMOUTH PHENOMENON POWDER FROM PINE TREES [BY TELEGRAPH OWN CORRESPONDENT] NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday Looking like sulphur from some distant eruption, deposits of yellow substance were found on the ground in many places at New Plymouth after light, steady rain had fallen. With the wind from the north-east suspicions of renewed thermal activity in the central island belt were aroused before the unusual phenomenon was explained. The fine gold powder, which could bo scraped into handfuls from paths and gardens, was pollen from thousands of pine trees about the town blown into the air and brought to earth again by the rain which followed. When the pollen of the pine ripens and the wind and the rain combine such falls are frequent, but very rarely do they leave more than a trace of yellow dust. The last fall, however, was unusually heavy and covered the ground in many places.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23129, 30 August 1938, Page 10
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