The weather in the main centres today:
For AUCKLAND:
mainly fine, light winds.
Max 15
WELLINGTON: Few cloudy
periods, brief southerlies.
Max 14
CHRISTCHURCH: Mainly
fine, northeasterlies later.
Max 14
DUNEDIN: Cloudy,
late showers, westerly breezes.
Max 13
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