DUNEDIN'S HOTTEST DAY.
ICE CREAM VENDORS* STOCKS EXHAUSTED NOR'WESTER SWEEPS CITY. DUNEDIN, Last Night. To-day will be long by Dunedin residents as the hottest day, during the past seven years. The burning rays of the sun tried the endurance of many’and numbers were almost prostrated, A fresh wind from the north-west swept the city like a blast from a furnace. The thermometer registered 92 degrees in the shade at mid-uay, equivalent to 120 degrees in the sun. In February, 1922, the thermometer registered 94 degrees in the shade. To-day's reading was 10 degrees higher than that of Thursday and 22 degrees higher than on January 1. There- was a big demand for ice cream and local vendors cleared their stocks in a few hours.
Women thronged tea-rooms and marble-bars in search of rest and cooling drinks.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 January 1929, Page 2
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136DUNEDIN'S HOTTEST DAY. Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 January 1929, Page 2
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