Fan for this weather
As Christchurch sweltered in record-equalling temperatures yesterday, Francis Bolstad, aged four, of Christchurch, fanned his iface against this heat in? Cathedral Square. \ . Yesterday’s temperature of 28.6 deg. equalled the record for October, set in ■1963. The Meteorological Office expects the warm weather to continue today* but a cooler change to come later this evening. A spokesman for the Christchurch Fire Service
warned motorists against filling their cars’ petrol tanks to the top. Yesterday the service was called to eight spillages caused by ‘ petrol, overflowing from full tanks after the fuel had expanded in the heat When cars were filled at pumps they were on level ground but, when parked on* the camber of the road,- they were more . likely to lose petrol, he Sa *Mr R. A. Collier, senior
fire control officer in the Forest Service, reports that the fire danger in Canterbury forests is high to extreme. . ► , “It is not .'.too bad outside the forcsts as there is a lot of green lush grass, but inside where-there is
a covering of pine needles it is dangerous,” he said. Irwell 1 has the highest danger, and the Balmoral and Hammer Springs forests are very dry, too.
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