Another month and no shortage of rain!  Rain watchers Mike Taylor and David Riddell tally up the rainfall for November. In a nutshell – after a dry first two months of spring, November saw a return to wetter conditions, with 82mm recorded at Puketaha and 85.5mm at Gordonton (NB: rainfall was not recorded at Gordonton

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Plenty. Enough to float a flotilla of rubber ducks. But don’t take my word for it – here’s what rain watchers Mike Taylor and David Riddell say.   August Puketaha: 138mm Gordonton: 123.5mm So overall, very similar patterns for last month. Puketaha was slightly wetter but Gordonton had the wettest single day, with an impressive

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Last week we ran a story on the roadside rubbish collected by a Ngaruawahia resident. Puketaha’s Mike Taylor sent this photo in of his latest haul from Seddon Rd. This, including an iron, is from a 60-metre stretch on his side of the road, starting from the corner of Puketaha Rd. Mike collects the roadside

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