"As Balfour turned into Revell Street, he was met with such a
lash of wind and rain that he was obliged to clamp his hat to his head with his
hand. According to Saxby’s Weather Warnings, that dubious oracle published
daily in the West Coast Times, the deluge would let up within a day or three –
for Saxby was expansive in his predictions, and allowed himself a generous
margin of error on either side of his guess. In general, the specifics of his
column changed but rarely: downpour was as much a part of the Hokitika
constitution, as frost and sunburn had been in Otago……."
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