. The geography of New Zealand. Historical, physical, political, and commercial . all is caused by the hilly country which isencountered by the moist westerly winds. Wherethese strike the hills, they are forced to rise, and theirtemperature is lowered. They can no longer retainall the moisture with which they were charged, andmuch of it is precipitated as rain. Round Aucklandand over much of the land to the south, there is asmaller rainfall. There are few stations in this areawhere observations have been made, but the rainfallis probably not heavy, for the westerly winds have tosome extent bee
. The geography of New Zealand. Historical, physical, political, and commercial . all is caused by the hilly country which isencountered by the moist westerly winds. Wherethese strike the hills, they are forced to rise, and theirtemperature is lowered. They can no longer retainall the moisture with which they were charged, andmuch of it is precipitated as rain. Round Aucklandand over much of the land to the south, there is asmaller rainfall. There are few stations in this areawhere observations have been made, but the rainfallis probably not heavy, for the westerly winds have tosome extent been robbed of their moisture by thehigh hills of Pirongia and Kerioi before they reachthe Waikato country. All the west coast has a sufficient rainfall, thoughit is most abundant where the land is highest, fornear Wanganui, where the hills are lower, the rainfallrises little above thirty inches over all that portionof the coastal plain. Near Mount Egmont it is veryhigh, and at tAvo stations to the east of it, it reachesover 100 inches, and at the mountain house at an CIJMATE 263. < -t 1 \s A -» 1 C 42 r \\ K \^ ^ : ^ 1 ;/ il 1 ?)/ ^ -c t. , 1 C t V => c ga c< c « (/) c o < 5 E< cs 0000(0 eg - 264 GEOGRAPHY OF NEW ZEALAND elevation of 3140 feet on the northern slopes 287inches fell in the year 1910. Though recording stations are scanty, it is safe tosay that throughout the backbone of the island therainfall is more than 70 inches. The only actualhigh level stations are the Summit and Wainuiomata,where the fall is 90 and 71 inches east all the stations record less than 70inches, and there is a broad strip near the coast,where the rainfall is under 50 inches. Coromandel Peninsula is another wet district, forthe land is high, and the westerly winds have beenbut little robbed of their moisture by the low landsof the Auckland isthmus. The South Island has a much wider range ofvariation, for the high land that ever
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