NO THAW YET.
Upper Thames Frozen Over. ROADS BECOME PASSABLE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, February 19. Except on the east coast, temperatures in most places in Britain rose yesterday but there was frost again last night and official forecasts give no indication that a general thaw is imminent. . Skating is still being enjoyed on frozen lakes and ponds in and around London, and in the country, while in the lake district vast stretches of ice are still available. Frozen rivers and canals in the eastern counties afford many miles of skating. Although the Thames is frozen over in its upper reaches the thickness of the ice is so variable as to make skating unsafe. Practically all the roads throughout England are now passable., the accumulations of snow and ice having been cleared, but in Devonshire, where there are from six to eight inches of snow on the main roads, travelling is treacherous. In Wales many of the main roads are still impassable.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 43, 20 February 1929, Page 7
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165NO THAW YET. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 43, 20 February 1929, Page 7
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