HOT WEATHER IN CHRISTCHURCH

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27832, 3 December 1955, Page 8

HOT WEATHER IN CHRISTCHURCH

TEMPERATURE RISES TO 87 DEGREES As car tyres swished along tarstreaked roads and pedestrians stepped carefully around newly-sealed stretches of footpath, the temperature soared yesterday to 87 degrees shortly after 12.30 pan.—making it the hottest day this summer, and the third hottest day this year. The hottest day this year was m January, when the temperature reached 91.7 degrees, and the second hottest was 91.2 degrees, reached in February. The forecast is for another hot day. The beaches were popular and the banks of the River Avon were crowded during the lunch-hour by city workers in shirt sleeves and light frocks. Two linesmen who have been working at the top of a power pole at the corner of Madras and Peterborough streets for the last two days provided their own awning—a sugar bag slung between two of the cables above their heads.

Later in the day fine grade shingle was spread over many parts of streets in the city and suburbs. Last evening an impression of a fog in Riccarton avenue was created by motor-cars raising clouds of dust from . the shingle. Hundreds of people made their way to the beaches by foot, bicycle and car last evening. By 7 p.m the crowds at New Brighton were as large as usually seen on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon Business in the city was relatively quiet.