ARCTIC COLD.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15887, 27 July 1923, Page 5

ARCTIC COLD.

*IN SOUTH ISLAND. Details of the frosts in the Lakes district show that they were almost Arctic in their severity. For a week or ten days the cold was the most intense experienced by the oldest inhabitants. The reading of the thermometer at Arrow School on the 9th was two degrees below zero, or 34 degrees of frost. At “Craigory” on the same morning the thermometer registered four degrees below zero, and poultry were found frozen to their roosts. Skippers reported 36 degrees of frost—or four degrees below zero. It was considered, however, that it was even colder than that, as the thermometer was hung under an open iron shed, and the reading taken there. One farmer in the Garston district found his team of draught horses snowed in, and when he got them out they had eaten each other’s tails and manes off close. He expects to lose the whole team, the eating of the hair haring destroyed their digestive organs. On the Crown Range, near Arrowtown, the depth of snow was between four and five feet. Two miners weie snowed in behind the Crown Terrace for several days, and eventually, in four days, cut a way to the main road, encountering snow in some places to a depth o'f six feet.