FROST AND FOG

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23058, 8 June 1938, Page 12

FROST AND FOG

EXPERIENCE IN WAIKATO ROAD TRAFFIC DELAYED [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Tuesday One of the most severe touches of winter this year was experienced w Hamilton this morning, when lawns and parks were shrouded with a heavy mantle of frost. In the town itself si? degrees were recorded, but in somfl, 0 the outlying districts it was heavier. At the Ruakura Farm of Instruction 9.4 degrees were recorded. . A very thick fog covered the kato during the early hours this morning and visibility was very poor until daybreak. Traffic along the AucklandHamilton main highway was unped# by heavy banks of fog during the night. SIX DEGREES AT PUKEKOHE BENEFIT TO THE SOIL i [FROM OtR OWN CORRESPONDENT] ' rUKEKOHE, Tuesday • - Six degrees of frost were registered' on the minimum thermometer at Pukekoho Technical High School tm» morning. As the frost is seasonab e, l will do good in sweetening the grouna | and killing insect pests. The co weather will retard the development cauliflower crops, which are reac i r the stage where cutting for the mar has commenced. _______ CONDITIONS IN THE CITY COLDEST MORNING OF YEAR Although the day was fine and siinflj ' cold night temperatures were espe - : enced at Auckland yesterday. © . mum reading of 43 degrees was coldest experienced this winter an maximum 56 degrees was below nl ? . f|g the recent readings. Foggy con 1 ■|- prevailed in the early morning, ui which was beginning to form as , was largely dispelled when the 15 veered to. the north-west.