CITY ESCAPES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1938, Page 12

CITY ESCAPES.

FROST IN PROVINCE. BUT TEMPERATHURES LOW. Bracing cold made Aucklanders glad of the run to trams and ferry boats this morning. Although no frost was recorded in the city, the temperature was low enough to demand heavy overcoats and scarves. The lowest reading taken on the grass in Albert Park was 39deg, 7deg above freezing point, and that was cold enough to keep city dwellers on the move. Workers fortunate enough to be granted a free Saturday morning through the operation of the 40-hour week stayed an extra hour in bed. In the outlying parts of the province a different tale was told. The heaviest frost this year was experienced in the Waikato this morning, when the countryside was mantled in white. At Hamilton the recording was Sue::; at Ruakura there were SJ points of frost, and at Cambridge the reading- v as 9i points. A gloriously fine day followed, and all records for attendance were expected to be broken at the Te P»apa races. Long before noon Victoria Street was thronged ; with vehicles and foot traffic, and main | highways from all points bore long | streams of cars. « ~ °