THE HEAT WAVE.
CONDITIONS IN KING COUNTRY. Mr. B. W. Hayson, schoolmaster at Mangapehi, writes as follows in connection with the present heat wave:— Here, in Mangapehi, King Country (142 miles from Auckland), the thermometer registered on Monday of this week 104deg. in the sun and 92deg. in the shade, and on Tuesday llOdeg. in the sun at noon and 94deg. in the shade (in the schoolroom with all windows wide open)." GISBORNE RECORD. [bt TELEGRAPH.— press ASSOCIATION.] Gisborne, Wednesday. The thermometer registered up to 99deg. in the shade to-day, eight degrees higher than ever previously experienced here. On Monday the maximum register was 91. Only on four previous occasions has that heat been registered at Gisborne.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13625, 19 December 1907, Page 5
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