RECORD FROST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 12

RECORD FROST.

DAMAGE IN INVERCARGILL. PLUMBERS IX DEMAND. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) IX VE RC A KG ILL, Friday. What is believed to be a record frost for Invercargill. IS degrees, was registered this morning. Since last Saturday there lias been hardly a cloud in the skv, and each night lias been cold, clear and frosty, followed by bright, sunny days. More water pipes were burst in houses to-day than on any other day during the week. The demand for plumbers is enormous, but, according to one man, to-day marked only the beginning of the rush. A number of pipes have not yet thawed, and it is when they do that the defect becomes visible. The number of householders requiring the services of plumbers has been so great that in many ca.se® only temporary repairs have been done. The work will have to be completed later. The severity of the frost was felt not only in homes. Garages reported a busy time repairing burst radiators of cars, mainly as the result of the outflow pipes beine frozen. Degrees of frost registered in Invercargill during the week have been as follows:—Saturday, 12; Sunday, 16; Monday, 12; Tuesday, 10; Wednesday, 5; Thursday, 11; Friday, 18. Queenstown has also been experiencing very severe frosts. Twenty-two degrees have been registered and the ground is froien to a depth of over a foot. Many households have been put to great inconvenience because of burst pipes, and housewives have had some difficulty in hanging out washing, because of the clothes being frozen stiff before they could be placed on the line.