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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

[No. 50]

CLIMATOLOGICAL TABLE—continued

Summary of the Records of Temperature, Rainfall, and Sunshine for June, 1945—continued

Air Temperatures in Degrees (Fahrenheit).

Means of

Mean

Difference

Absolute Maximum and

Minimum.

Station.

Height of Station above

M.S.L.

A

Max.

B

Min.

and

from

Normal.

Maximum.

Date.

Minimum.

Date.

Rainfall in Inches.

Total

Fall.

No.

of

Wet

Days.

Difference

from

Normal.

Most in a

Day.

Amount.

Date.

Bright

Sun-

shine

(Hours).

LATE RETURNS

Auckland, May, 1945 ..

160

58·5

49·8

54·2

-2·6

64·3

3

42·6

24

8·23

23

+3·14

1·51

17

133·1

Wanganui, May, 1945

72

56·7

46·0

51·4

(-1·3)

64·3

11

35·0

9

4·32

18

+1·07

0·86

3

113·2

Hermitage, Mount Cook,

2,510

47·3

30·7

39·0

(-2·0)

54·0

14

22·0

28

8·06

14

-4·45

2·41

2

63·3

May, 1945

Manorburn Dam, May,

2,448

43·2

30·2

36·7

-1·8

50·5

14

22·5

8

3·07

16

+1·19

0·70

27

..

1945

NOTE.—At stations where departures from normal are in parentheses the record has been maintained for less than ten years in the case of temperatures and for less than twenty years in the case of rainfall and the normals are partly interpolated.

NOTES ON THE WEATHER FOR JUNE, 1945

General.—June was a cold month with fairly light rainfalls. Except in areas very exposed to the south there has not been much wind, and consequently the ground has remained damp. Conditions have not been suitable in many places for working the land, and the area sown in wheat is smaller than usual. Growth generally is at a standstill. Stock are doing well, with a considerable amount of feeding-out being necessary. The mean barometric pressure for the month was remarkably uniform throughout the country.

Rainfall.—Nearly all districts had subnormal rainfalls. Amounts were less than half the average at Whangarei, Gisborne, Central Hawke's Bay, the Manawatu, the low country of Nelson and Marlborough, from mid-Canterbury to Central Otago, and at Stewart Island. There was surplus rainfall, however, in coastal areas from Cape Kidnappers to Wellington, but more especially in the southern Wairarapa and at Lower Hutt.

Temperatures.—As in May, mean temperatures everywhere were colder than average. Most of the departures were about 2 degrees, but near Auckland and in parts of inland Canterbury they amounted to 4 degrees. Between the 8th and 19th, during a spell of persistent southerly winds, there was a sequence of sharp frosts in all districts except on the east coast, where dull conditions kept day and night temperatures at a more even but low level.

Most of the snow on the ranges fell about the 7th.

Sunshine.—It was a good month for sunshine in northern and western districts, Tauranga, with 191 hours, being the most favoured. Between Gisborne and Wellington and south to Methven totals were slightly below average. Still further south the amounts were approximately normal.

Weather Sequence.—Fresh south-westerlies were giving a few showers on the 1st, but settled conditions became almost general from the 2nd to the 4th, when an anticyclone covered New Zealand. Frosts were sharp and widespread. From the 5th to the 7th disturbance in a slow-moving trough brought unsettled weather, rain being rather heavy at times in western districts. A cold south-westerly change with wintry showers spread northward on the 7th, while a depression to the east deepened considerably as it neared Chatham Islands. Showery conditions persisted from Akaroa to Wellington to East Cape, while elsewhere it soon became fine and clear. An anticyclone from the South Tasman was centred near or south of Southland from the 11th to 15th and moved to the south-east on the 16th, but another large anticyclonic cell was then located to the south-west. From the 13th occasional rain extended southward from Christchurch, but elsewhere the weather remained unchanged. By the 19th the anticyclone to the west was spreading on to the country, and thus ended an unusually long southerly spell on the east coast.

As winds tended more westerly isolated showers occurred in the west of the North Island. There was a general deterioration on the 22nd. Strong winds from a northerly quarter brought dull conditions with rain to many districts. A deep depression was over southern New Zealand, and as the main frontal zone passed east across the country it improved somewhat on the 23rd on the east coast.

Another depression from the northern Tasman passed over New Zealand early on the 25th and gave moderate rain in central and northern districts. Winds became moderate southerly, and the weather improved fairly generally on the 27th as a wedge associated with an anticyclone to the north passed over. Frosts were most widespread on the 28th.

During the 29th a depression in the central Tasman caused a short period of rain extending from the north to about the Manawatu. An anticyclone, however, was intensifying in the south-east, and on the 30th, apart from scattered rain on the east coast of the North Island, the weather was fine.

M. A. F. BARNETT, Director.

Sitting of the Native Land Court and Maori Land Board at Te Kuiti on the 21st August, 1945

Office of the Native Land Court, Auckland, 18th July, 1945.

NOTICE is hereby given that the matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder will be heard by the Native Land Court and Maori Land Board sitting at Te Kuiti on Tuesday, the 21st August, 1945, at 10 a.m., or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court and the Board will allow.

J. H. ROBERTSON, Registrar.

[Waikato-Maniapoto, 1945-5.]

SCHEDULE

No.

Applicant.

Name of Land.

Nature of Application.

44 Under-Secretary, Public Works Department

Lot 8, Block VII, Town of Taumarunui, on D.P. 20591

Application under section 104 of the Public Works Act, 1928, for the assessment of compensation for additional land taken for pole-stacking purposes.

Sitting of the Native Land Court at Auckland on the 21st August, 1945

Office of the Native Land Court, Auckland, 20th July, 1945.

NOTICE is hereby given that the matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at Auckland on Tuesday, the 21st August, 1945, at 10.30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.

J. H. ROBERTSON, Registrar.

[Tokerau, 1945/46-8.]

SCHEDULE

No.

Applicant.

Name of Land.

Nature of Application.

11 Under-Secretary, Public Works Department

Part Orakei Block...

Application for assessment of compensation for land taken for housing scheme.

12 Ditto...

Pukemokimoki; part Hanekau B 2B; part Ururua 2D 2A; part Kopironui B 2D 2; parts Kopironui B 2E 1

Assessment of compensation for land taken for sand-dune-reclamation purposes.