ZERO TEMPERATURE

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 79, 28 December 1925, Page 7

ZERO TEMPERATURE

COLD WAVE STRIKES UNITED STATES

(Rcc. December 27, 11.5 p.m.)

New York, December 26. A cold wave struck , many of the country to-day, bringing suffering and death in its wake. A gale struck New York, bringing the thermometer to 18 degrees above zero and coverin ß the city with whirling dust and smoke from bituminous burning fires, me temperature in Chicago was 2 degree below zero, and five persons died from cold. Fort Covengton, New York, reported 18 degrees below zero, and Alinncapolis 13 degrees below. The storm, which started cast from Kansas on Thursday morning, bringing the cold wave, was centred oft the Nova Scotia coast this morning, and was continuing out to sea. The weather reports showed below zero tempcratures as far south as the middle portions of the States bordering on the Gulf of Alexico. The Weather Bureau states that the cold will hold throughout the coming week, and predicts heavy snowstorms. w Wisconsin, Alinnesota, and Nortn Dakota were the heaviest sufferers, but the lack of coal aggravated the situation in many States. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. _

Owing to the football ground at Bath being covered in snow, tile refeiee ot the Bath-Yeovil match said the game could be played providing the pitch was marked out with soot, but 11. c whole city was searched in vain. Consequently the match was abandoned. The Italian Debt Commission will arrive in London on January 3. Negotiations will follow. •

Some people talked about, costs, said Mr. A. B. Charters, principal of the Whangarei High School, in referring at the annual prize-giving to the practice of taking boys on tour to play in football matches, but by taking off turnip fields boys who had never before seen south of Auckland and showing them such places as Palmerston North, the Manawatu Gorge. Hastings, and Napier, a practical lesson in geography was being inculcated, whereas in the classroom they would have to be told about such places over and over again before tliev would, remember anything about them. '1 he football tours cost money, declared ’ the principal, but it was money well spent. —Auckland “Star.”

A; unusual matter in the way of correspondence came before the Wha■igarei Harbour Board (states the Auckland “Star”), when a local legal firm advised the board that a lady client of theirs had ruined a dress valued at £8 Bs. as the result of sitting upon a newly-painted seat on Victoria Quay. No direct claim was lodged. The board’s engineer said the, seat, was on private propertv. A warning ticket had been placed upon the seat while it was wet, but the usual mischievous boy had appeared and cast it into the tide. The chairman suggested that he and Mr. Hosking be deputed to assess the damage done to the dress,, and to convey to the solicitors the opinion of the board Hint the claim should, have been made direct to the board without having recourse to sending in a solicitor’s lettet. This was agreed to.