HARD FROST THIS MORNING DAMAGES EARLY GARDENS
The second hardest frost to occur on the West Coast this year damaged early gardens in the Grey district this morning. The grass temperature reached a minimum of 22.6 degrees early this morning, giving 9.4 degrees of frost. The heaviest frost experienced in the Grey district this year was on June 16, when the temperature was 21.8 degrees, or 10 degrees of frost. At many homes, early gardens suffered from today’s frost, which followed several bleak, cold days which had already given plants a setback. In the Boddytown district several gardens of well-developed potatoes which would have been ready for digging next month were damaged, the tops being blackened. Yesterday the longest period of sunshine since last summer was experienced. The total was 11.3 hours, which brought the total sunshine hours this year to over the 1200 mark. ‘
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 September 1949, Page 4
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