FROST BREAKS POLE

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 219, 12 June 1933, Page 8

FROST BREAKS POLE

Cold Snap in Auckland ABNORMAL VISITATIONS Dominion Special Service. Auckland, June 10. The cold weather, which has been experienced since Tuesday, continued yesterday, although the day was clear and sunny. The minimum temperature on grass yesterday morning, as registered at the Albert Park Observatory, was 32 degrees, compared with 29 degrees on Thursday morning The air temperature at nine o’clock yesterday morning was 42 degrees, four degrees lower than on the previous day. One of the heaviest frosts experienced this year at Pukekohe was found to have caused a telegraph pole at the corner of Queen Street and Kitchener Road to break off. There were no marks of the pole having been broken from any other cause, and it is thought that the wires were contracted by the cold and placed too great a strain on the pole. It was necessary to rep’ace the pole, and the telephone service to the Pukekohe Hill was still out of commission last evening. At Hamilton 10.4 degrees of frost were registered at the Ruakura State Farm yesterday morning, this being the heaviest this year. In June last year there was a frost on 14 mornings. Very cold conditions have been experienced at Cambridge, this week, there being 12 degrees of frost on Thursday morning and a similar heavy one yesterday morning. The wet and boisterous weather that has prevailed at Te Kniti during the past few weeks has given place to dear days and very cold nights. Both on Thursday and yesterday morning hard frosts were experienced, and the indications last evening pointed to another sharp frost this morning. Last winter’s record was 23 frosts in succession. The effects of the snowfalls in Taranaki were felt at Te Kuiti on Thursday, as a very keen southerly wind prevailed throughout the day.