SNOW IN BRITAIN.

Evening Star, Issue 25993, 7 January 1947, Page 8

SNOW IN BRITAIN.

STOP PRESS

LONDON, January 6.—London and the South of England had the year’s first big snowfall and the biggest cut yet in electric power. Harley Street specialists were without heat and light for two and a-half hours. Central London traffic lights went out during the rush hour. The lights failed in police stations from where officers, working by candlelight, sent out men to organise traffic control. The snow froze on the roads as quickly as it fell. Farmers are digging for hundreds of sheep buried under the snow in the mountains of North Wales. Widespread falls occurred in many parts of Britain.

TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS,

Women’s Singles, Second Round. —Miss E. G. Attwood (Auckland) beat Mrs D. Rawlinson (Otago), 6-1, 6-2. Men’s Plate, First Round. —P. Becroft (Auckland) beat J. C, Robertson (Otago), 6-4, 6-2.

CRICKET.

Otago, batting against the Wellington minor associations at Palmerston North, lost three for 52 (Cutler 19). At lunch: Four for 10S (Robinson 43 not out). ■ Women’s match, Canterbury v, Otago, at Christchurch.—Canterbury four for 110 (Z. Hocking 59, N. Haynes 22).

THE TEST.

England:. None for 137 (Washbrook 89, Hutton 40). Later: One for 156 (Hutton c Bradman b Toshack 40, Washbrook 100 not out). Lunch: Two for 164 (Edrich lbw McCool 13).