INTENSE HEAT AT CHRISTCHURCH.
'-f- ' , ♦ —-— : PIGS DIE AT THE SALEYARDS. ■ IDV TM.ECItirjI—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) i Ghrlstchurch/January 29. Christchurch to-day :, .experienced th«; greatest heat?of the summer, and it is doubtful whether the record of 05.3 in tho shade registered at! tho , observatory has ever been., v surpassed in'tho city. . Tho night was~~cool, and oven at 7 o'clock in the morning the temperature was only 59 dogrees'; but after that it rose by leaps'; arid bounds. At 9 o'clock it was nearly 80; at 10, it was 87.12 at noon, 5&.6; at 1 o'clock, 92.6; at three, 93.8; and at 4 o'clock, 95.3., A-gentle nor'wester, nolenough to move tho dust to aiiy extent, added to the heat, and considerably increased tho discomfort of those who had. to bo outsido. The worst oi the heat, however, was passed between 4 and 5 m >tho and later on a cool easterly breczo rovived tho • wiltod towii. The effcct of the heat was tho extraordinary loss of pigs at the Addington saloyards. Ono farmer lost seven out of twenty, and-the totalivalue> or the "animals that died would bo between £oQ and £60.. ' : :
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 108, 30 January 1908, Page 4
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186INTENSE HEAT AT CHRISTCHURCH. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 108, 30 January 1908, Page 4
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