HEAT WAVE CONTINUES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18606, 14 January 1924, Page 8

HEAT WAVE CONTINUES.

COUNTRY DISTRICTS SUFFER.

NEW RECORDS CREATED.

HIGH THERMOMETER READINGS.

[BY TELEGBAPH.- —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HOREINSYILLE, Saturday.

The weather during the last few days has been extremely hot. The temperature for the last two days was 85 degrees in the shade, which has only been exceeded here on one occasion in the history of Morrinsvilie. The muggy heat this week has been very trying,- and many old residents say they have never felt, it so hot before.

Deapite the fact that with northerly winds and an overcast sky, rain fell on Wednesday, the thermometer registered &5 degrees.

| CONDITIONS AT NGARUAWAHIA. | WEATHER HOT AND HUMID. i [EX TELEGRAPH. —OWN COBEXSPONDEKT.] NGABUA3WAKIA, Saturday. The weather at Xgaruavrah;a. is hot and | humid. The thermometer registered <*2 | degrees in the shade yesterday. I ! NINETY-EIGHT IN THE SHADE. OHAKUXE IN THE THROES. [bT TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] OHAKUNE, Saturday. A heat wave is at present prevailing throughout the King Country. Yesterday the glass recorded 93 in the shade, a record for Ohakune. Bush fires are burning in the vicinity of the township. Rain is" badly needed. Settlers' grass is beginning* to feel the effects of the heatCAE TEUTON'S HOTTEST DAY. NO SIGN OF A RESPITE. [ffi TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.] CARTERTON, Saturday. Yesterday was the hottest day ever experienced in Carterton. At noon the shade temperature was 91. and at 3 p.m. it had increased to 95. To-dav the weather continues very hot, despite Sleecy clouds and a slight breeze. EXPERIENCES AT BLENHEIM. GLASS CLIMBING- UPWARDS. [BT telegraph.--press association.] BLENHEIM. Saturday. Something of a heat wave was experienced here yesterday. In the morning the thermometer reached 50.25 in the shade, and in the afternoon climbed to 98.25. The bay and many .coves in the beautiful scenic reserve at Queen Charlotte Sound were considerably damaged by fire, which destroyed an extensive area of native bash.

PESSIMISTIC OTAGO FARMER. POOS OUTLOOK. FOR CROPS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, Saturday. The prevailing dry spell and high winds do not suit the farmer at ail. One agriculturist in a fairly large way in the vicinity of Clinton stated that this, was positively the worst season he had experienced. There was not enough moisture in the ground, and when a shower of rain was experienced there came a drying wind which neutralised all the good effect of the rain-

Turnip crops were bound to be poor, he said, and the oat crops in many places ! would be so short as to render cutting difficult. One immediate result would be 1 the scarcity of good chaff, and he expected that horse feed would run as high as £7 and £3 per ten before long. Wheat -was also expected to be scarce and dear with a resultant bad effect on the Poultry industry, never in a very flourishing state i in Dunedim