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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18387, 3 May 1934, Page 6

Mails for the United Kingdom and Europe which left Auckland on April 3, per R..M.S. Niagara, via Vancouver, arrived in London on May 2 In the hill country the first three weeks of April saw a continuance of the dry weather which prevailed during the previous month, but thereafter heavy, warm rains occurred, which should prove beneficial to pastures. The rainfall at Rakauroa for April was 2.56 in., on 15 days, the chief falls being as follow:—April 1, .C9in.; April 10, ,10in.; April 17, .26in.; April 20, .06in.; April 22, .55in.; April 23, ,18in.; April 24, .?3in.; April 25, .llin.; April 26, ,34in. The mean temperature for the month was 56.3 degrees and the extremes of temperatures 70deg. on April 7 and 33deg. on April 13. Slight frosts occurred on April 3, 13 and 28. Strong north-westerly winds prevailed during the period, reaching gale force on April 17, while a short-lived southerly gale blew on the afternoon and night ot April 26.