A WRONG IMPRESSION

Southland Times, Issue 20793, 6 June 1929, Page 6

A WRONG IMPRESSION

THE CLIMATE IN SOUTHLAND. MINISTER DISPELS DOUBTS, (Special to the Times.) Dunedin, June 5. Yisitors to Dunedin during show week have been delighted with the beautiful weather they have experienced. Particularly impressed were the Taranaki farmers, who come form a mild climate. One and all they were loud in their praise of the fine, weather and winter conditions here, and one of them said before departure this morning that, he did not know of anywhere else in New Zealand that could show better conditions. The Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle, tells a good story concerning the wrong impression that exists in some parts of New Zealand concerning the weather in the southern portion of the South Island. Recently he was entertained at a dinner at JCaitaia in the “Winterless North,” and chose as the subject, of his address “Southland, its Climate and Productivity.” In reply, a very old resident of the district said he was glad to have heard Mr de la Perrelle, whose remarks had corrected a very wrong impression he had possessed concerning the southern climate.- He had previously thought of Southland as a place “full of icefloes and close to where Byrd was operating.”