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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17527, 2 May 1925, Page 11

Carpenters were employed to-day taking out decayed timbers in the walls ©£• the Provincial Council Building and replacing them with fresh timbers. A few parts of Baltic pine planks in the floor of the old council chamber also are being replaced. Tt lias been suggested that, as the floor is receiving attention, the frayed cocoa-nut matting used there for many years should be replaced by modern linoleum, which will match the mosaic tiles on the Avails. AYc often complain about, our rainy weather, but really we do not know What rain means! One has .to go to tbc Tvliasi Hills, in Assam, to see rain at its heaviest, for there it comes down in Niagaras. This spot, for it is not of large extent rejoices in the name of Cberripungi, and it deserves all the other had names cue can giro St. its average rainfall averages 158 inches, or just eighteen t ines the rainfall of London. In 1861 Cberripungi nearly doubled its average, lor in that Jroar .-'Go inches fell, of which 36G were •recorded in flic mouth of .July ! On the JWtii day of that month JO inches oL rain feli in i?-t hours, and in t“!e five flays. June 1° the total reached upwards of 111 inches, or more than tour times the average annual rainfall of London. The heaviest recorded 5n Great Britain occurred at Burton, Jr. Somerset on June L’9. 1917 when »\ inches fell.