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FOG i.N CHANNEL. SHIPPING DELAYED. (British Official Wireless.) lU'G BY. Mi;roii 29. While other parts of Britain wore enjoying brilliant' sunshine the fog in tlie Channel yesterday was .so dense that the Southampton mail and passenger ships were brought to a complete standstill. Several incoming liners were fogbound off the Isle of Wight, and cross-Channel steamers had to drop anchor and wait for several hours. Easter traffic was in consequence cons durably hampered. The fog having cleared during the night an augmented service of Channel steamers was able to proceed according to schedule this morning. MIDSUMMER HEAT. United Press Assn, by 131. Tel. Copyright iAustralian Prims Association.) LONDON. March 30. Good Friday was marked by midsummer heat.' There' was ten hours’ sunshine., throughout the country, an'd at many placets the shade temperature was over 70—a record for March.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10859, 1 April 1929, Page 5
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