INTENSE HEAT STOPS MOTOR-CARS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 107, 30 January 1939, Page 8

INTENSE HEAT STOPS MOTOR-CARS

Scientist’s Experience In Australia INTEREST IN RECORDS OF EARTHQUAKES Hy Telegraph—Press Association. INVERCARGILL, January 29. Heat of such intensity that it brought motor-cars to a stop was one of the most outstanding experiences or Mr. 11. F. Baird, seismologist at the Christchurch magnetic observatory, who returned to New Zealand by the Mauuganui, after attending the congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science. . Most of those who travelled to the congress by car, Mr. Baird said, found they could run for only an. hour ano then stop for half an hour. The reason was that, in the modern car the petrol pump was so close to Lie exhaust pipe that it became overheated. Mr. Baird visited several observatories in Australia and was particularly interested in the records of the recent earthquake in New Zealand as token at Riverview College, Sydney. L was interested to note, he said, that according to the record shocks felt recently in the south-west of New Zealand were of much greater intensity than those reported at about the same time from Hawke’s Bay, and they appea red 'to have come from a consider' able depth.