HOT DAY IN S.I.

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30934, 15 December 1965, Page 1

HOT DAY IN S.I.

Christchurch yesterday had its hottest day this summer, the temperature reaching 85 degrees at the weather office at Harewood at 4.30 p.m. The rise came after a wind change to the north-west about 3.45 p.m.

The Government Life building’s temperature gauge recorded 92 degrees at 5.45 p.m. but a spokesman for the weather office said that the building generated a certain amount of heat, and this would cause the higher reeling. On December 14 last year the maximum temperature at Harewood was 69 degrees. At 6 a.m. yesterday the temperature at Harewood was 57 degrees, and at 9 a.m. it was 65 degrees. By noon it was 76 degrees, and it stayed at that until the wind change.

The temperature in the Botanic Gardens at 3 p.m. was 74 degrees. Other centres in the South Island .also had high temperatures. At Dunedin Airport the maximum was 86 degrees, and at Horarata at 3 p.m. it was 83 degrees.

Shunting Mishap.—Several railway trucks smashed through a fence and came to rest across the footpath and partly on the road at the corner of Wilsons road and Mowbray street shortly before 8 a.m. yesterday. No-one was injured in the accident, which happened during shunting. A railways breakdown crane lifted the three o four trucks back on to the line.