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observer at Waimate, that there the prevailing winds are light east and 
north-east, with light rain, the heaviest rains coming from the south-west ; 
while the north-west winds only very occasionally pass beyond the interior, 
and even then have lost their violence. At Mount Peel also the greater 
part of the rainfall is derived from the south-west, although here the 
north-west winds sometimes bring heavy showers. On Mount Torlesse 
and Mount Oxford and farther north there is less of the steady south-west 
rain and more of the north-west showers, and the significance of this lies 
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