ALPINE SKATING RINK
ARTHUR'S PASS SCHEME PROSPECTS NOT FAVOURABLE [from ouk own cob respondent"] CHRISTCHURCH. Thursday Little prospect is held for tho construction of an ice-skating rink at Arthur's Pass. Recently the Canterbury Progress League "set up a subcommittee to go into the matter with various authorities. Reporting on behalf of this committee at a meeting of the league, Mr. T. M. Charters said that after a thorough investigation it would appear that tho temperature at Arthur's Pass was not suitable, nor was there sufficient ground available. A letter was read from Mr. E. S. Brittenden, district traffic manager of railways, who advised that from data supplied by the Government Meteorological Office the establishment of an ice-skating rink was not practicable. Meteorological observations over six years showed that only in two seasons were conditions anything like satisfactory. Changes in temperature were very sudden, and there was only one period of five days in the six years in which the temperature stayed at 20 degrees or below that mark.
The letter was referred to the committee for report.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22878, 5 November 1937, Page 13
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