HIGH TEMPERATURES
CANTERBURY SWELTERS
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) ' CHRISTCHURCH, January 7. Not for 14 years has Christchurch had a hotter day than it had today,, when the maximum temperature in the' shade was 93.1 degrees, reached at 2.5 p.m. On January 3, 1921, the temperature was 94.3 A degrees, and there has been only pne day hotter than that since temperatures have been officially recorded. .That day was January 30, 1908, and the temperature was 95.3 degrees. \' In exposed places the temperature today was considerably higher than it was at Christchurch, a reading, taken at 'Avoca showing 96 degrees. Today was the seventh day this summer and the second this month that the temperature has been higher than 80 degrees. The previous highest for the summer was 86.9 degrees on December 20.
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Evening Post, Issue 6, 8 January 1935, Page 12
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