RARATONGA NEWS.
; (Per Press Association.) . AUCKLAND, last night. Advices from Raratonga, dated -April 2nd,' state: The month of March, which has just passed, holds the record for the greatest amount of rain 'm one month for the past ten years, a total of 22.26 inches having fallen m 18 days' rain, with a maximum of 3.36 inches m one day. The average for the month of March m the last ten years is 8.95, and the total "rainfall for the first three months of the present year; is 42.46 inches, as against an avei-age of 28.82 inches for the, previous ten years. On, the 15th and 16th March Karatonga was visited by a- severe northerly gale, the barometer falling to 29.71. The wind was accompanied by a high sea, which rolled into the harbors. The schooner Viate, which was moored m Avatiu. harbor, was for some time m danger of drifting from her- moorings and going ashore, but luckily her wire ropes held. The mean of the barometer for the month was 29.986 inches. The mean thermometer readings were as follows: Mean maximum, 82 degrees; mean minimum, 73.4 degrees.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11249, 13 April 1908, Page 7
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