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Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1922, Page 10

Tokyo is in the same latitude (north, of course, for south) as Russell, Bay of Islands (savs W. Gray Dixon in the Lyttleton Times). The extremes of temperature are: For Tokyo, 9fldeg. and 16deg.; for Russell, 84deg. and 44deg. It may he doubted whether we are really alive to the extraordinary moderateness, mildness indeed, of our New Zealand climate. From north to south it is singularly free from extremes of either heat or cold. There is no cruel heat, and there is no cruel cold (unless, indeed, you scale our high mountains) within our borders. We speak of Auckland as muggy, but it cannot for melting heat compare with Tokyo; we shiver at the thought of Central Gtago in winter, -but Tokyo can easily equal that, and at Hokodate you can see the harbour frozen over. The four seasons in Japan are well marked and charged with varying beauty and interest; but New Zealand has, beyond question, the less vryiuv and the health- . ier climate.