EXTREMES OF WEATHER
“Touring as we do throughout New Zealand we experience many changes of climate,” said Flight-Lieutenant Gladstone Hill, conductor of the Royal New Zealand Air Force Band, in the course of a speech at the civic reception to the band in Invercargill yesterday. “We were in Auckland recently and the thermometer stood at over 90 degrees in the shade. Then we come down to Invercargill and find, well a difference. This afternoon I noticed in a window of a shop in the city refrigerators for sale and I wondered what use refrigerators could be in a climate like this,” he added amid laughter.
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Southland Times, Issue 24439, 20 May 1941, Page 4
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105EXTREMES OF WEATHER Southland Times, Issue 24439, 20 May 1941, Page 4
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