FARMING IN HAWKES BAY

Authors

  • R.H. Scott

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1955.17.1050

Abstract

You are in sunny Hawkes Bay, the word "sunny" having become synonymous with the name Hawkes Bay, and there is justification for this when one examines the sunshine records for the district. This city of Napier enjoys an average of 2,420 hours of sunshine per annum which, if you look at it on a daily basis, is equivalent to just over 6% hours of sunshine per day for every day of the year. Lying to the south-east of the North Island as it does, and protected from the prevailing westerly winds by the Ruahine Ranges on its western boundary, and to a more limited extent from the southerly winds by the hills to the 'south, it escapes much of the cloud that districts to the west of the ranges experience.

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Published

1955-01-01

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