MARRED BY WEATHER.
THE NEW YEAR HOLIDAY RAIN, IH'UNDER AND WIND. MANY GO TO STRATFORD RACES. After suits hi ue comes rain. That is inevitable, but Taranakians wished on New Year's Eve and yesterday that the coming of the inevitable had been delayed a little and that it had not arrived to spoil their New Year holiday. From the perfect summer weather of Christmas week and after, the conditions made a quick change on New Year’s Eve, passing through a period of muggy, thundery weather to a torrential downpour, which lasted throughout the. night. The weather showed signs of clearing yesterday morning, but the signs materialised only so far as to turn the downpour conditions into a disagreeable wind that brought intermittent showers. As the day grew older the temperature dropped, and last night in many homes where it had been thought goodbye had been said to open fires for the summer, the cheeriness of ft blaze had to be invoked to offset the cold.
Despite the adverse weather, however, Taranakians were in good holiday mood, and were determined not to be denied their fun. The special race trains and the motor services carried a big crowd to the races at Stratford, about 700 passengers making use of the special trains from New Plymouth. The l>ea-ch picnics at Ngamotu and East End were also well patronised, although not on such a large scale as on the previous New Years Day. The morning train from Hawera brought a number of picnickers, for whom the train was stopped at East End and also sent on to Ngamotu. It left on the return journey from Ngamotu in the afternoon. The mountain, Ngaere Gardens and al! the other resorts were also well visited, though, of course, there were not so many picnic parties as there would have been had the day been fine. Bowlers competing in the New Year tournament at New Plymouth found their games of sufficient interest to offset the adverse weather.
To-day is the last of the New Year holidays. The race-meeting at Stratford is the big attraction.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 January 1926, Page 13
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347MARRED BY WEATHER. Taranaki Daily News, 2 January 1926, Page 13
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