Report current or recent weather conditions at your location or elsewhere for Saturday 26th May below.
You do not need a weather station, just look out your window.

Ashburton @  07:00 AM
Calm and Clear
Currant Temp.  5.0°C   
Min Temp.1.2°C @  2:14 AM
Max Temp.6.2°C @5:50 AM
Rain  0.0 mm
Current wind. 0.0 km/h,NNW
Min Grass -3.9°C @ 1:54 AM
Currant Grass Min. -1.5°C

Port Robinson 8.45am
High overcast with a W to NW wind at around 11kmh, but gusting to 27kmh. Temperature 10.6° heading for a predicted high of 15°. No rain predicted, but expected to remain cloudy.

We've had fog this morning in Howick, but it has thinned out a bit now. Low of 8.4ºC, currently 13

Belmont, Lower Hutt

10.6 degrees
96% Humidity
Calm
Nil Rain
Barometer on 1027.9
Solar 151

High cloud cover that will hopefully burn off

Wairoa at 11:00
Mainly Cloudy, Calm and Mild.
The Over Night Temp Low was  10.8 °C
Rainfall of  3.6 mm since midnight.
Rainfall last 24 hours 3.6 mm
Current Temp Outside is  16.8 °C with Humidity  72%  and Dew Point  11.7 °C
Latest Wind Gust  7.2 km/h with speed of  5.0 km/h  N
Wind Chill is  16.8 °C
Baro  1028.2 hPa and Solar:  451

West Melton

Full cloud and temp 9.8
Wind gust 11.3
Baro 1019.1

Rain MTD 8.6mm

New Plymouth should have been reported as 15 degrees, (14.6 degrees, rounded to 15). I Checked several other NZ stations and they were rounded up, not down.

Airport was 14.2 degrees and that would be rounded down to 14, obviously.

There was a long standing agreement made that Met Service would use the New Plymouth site to report daily temperatures to media( I won't go over old ground on this issue, it dates back decades and was concluded a number of years ago).

New Plymouth has records going back into the mid 19th century, whereas the airport, which has had two shifts, starts in the late 20th century. After that the official station in New Plymouth city was ignored.

The differences are not large in terms of maximum temperatures, but the minimum temperatures are often quite  different.