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2 meteorology.

* The Registrar-General's estimate was 149,909.
METEOROLOGY.
In comparison with the data for the preceding four years (Table 1), the mean air
temperature was lower than usual, and the difference between the mean readings of the wet
and dry bulb thermometers smaller. The maximum shade temperature (80°) was recorded
unusually early in the season, viz., in May, and was considerably below the maxima recorded in
preceding years. The greater amount of watery vapour in the atmosphere, indicated by the
small difference between the wet and dry bulb thermometers, probably accounts for the
comparatively low reading of the solar thermometer (122°). Rain fell on more days in 1907
than in any of the four preceding years, but the total amount measured (23.86 in.) was less
than the records for 1900 (24.42 in.) and 1903 (38*07 in.). Bright sunshine was recorded on
280 days in 1907, a figure which was exceeded in 1900 only, but the total number of hours of
duration (1,304) has been exceeded twice, viz., in 1900 and 1905.