CANTERBURY'S CLIMATE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17246, 12 January 1924, Page 1

CANTERBURY'S CLIMATE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —The letter in to-day’s issue of the ‘‘Star’’ by ‘’Nor'-wester’’ is really amusing. He attempts to berate ‘AN aatemata. -- ~but his at&mpt is a miserable failure at best. “ AVaitemata is at least broadminded in his ,views on Canterbury's climate, but oue could hardly call “Nor’-wester’s” opinion of the subject an unbiased one. “ Nor’wester ” starts harping about the wheat we grow here that feeds Auckland. Bless me, it’s not the climate that is accountable for the good wheat Canterbury grows, but the fine soil of which our plains are made. Climate! One doesn't find climate here, he only gets samples of it! I’ll warrant in the last fortnight we have had a sample of every climate under the sun her© in Christchurch. I am a native of this garden city, and know the climate in all its eccentric moods, but I have also' „ived iu Auckland and every other place in New Zealand, and if ‘‘ Nor’-wester ” would like to know. I could name at least a dozen places for him with a far better climate than the one we don’t all enjoy here. “ Nor’-wester’s ” letter has one saving grace. He stated that “Christ church can more than hold its own in almost every way.” That “ almost,” like a good suit of clothes, covers a, multitude of faults. It is 'hot for me here to enumerate them, but, sir, should your space allow, and “Nor’wester ” seeks enlightenment on the subject, I shall be delighted to oblige him. Every city has its defects in, climate, but of all the places that vary the most. Christchurch is an easy, first. To-day has’been one of those “terribly sticky, humid ” ones that “ sap the very strength of the gentler sex,” according to “ Nor’-wester,” and next week we will have a few beautiful raw, south-west days, when the damp and cold creeps in to the very marrow. Sure we have a fine climate in Christchurch : ft’s like a child's fancy, always changing. and therefore not by any means ideal.—l am. etc., A FAIR THING. Christchurch, January 11.