UNSEASONABLE WEATHER

Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1930, Page 7

UNSEASONABLE WEATHER

COLDEST NOVEMBER RECORDED.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Wellington, Last Night. Dr. Kidson. states that for the third month in succession the weather in November was the coldest (for the Dominion as a whole) experienced since the taking of records commenced. It was also very stormy, westerly or southwesterly gales .being of frequent occurrence/ Thunder and hail storms were rather numerous also. In consequence of the adverse conditions the season is even more backward than at the'end of October. The growth of vegetation has been very poor. AH crops are in a backward state and prospects for the hay crop in particular are in most districts the reverse of bright. The cutting of ensilage has commenced in parts of the Auckland province, where the growth, of feed “has been fair. Stock appears to be in fair condition o-enerally, but there have been some fosses of sheep, principally in connection with shearing. The rainfall was, generally speaking, above or below the average according to whether or not the district concerned normally receives most of its rainfall in westerly weather. Several prosts occurred, those on November 24 and 28 being the heaviest. That on November 28 did considerable- damage to small cfops in the Wairarapa and Hawke’s Bay. There were further falls of snow on the ranges, that of November 23 extending to fairly low levels.