FIRST HEAVY FOG.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20649, 25 June 1935, Page 9

FIRST HEAVY FOG.

Traffic Inconvenienced in the City. Yesterday was the coldest day of the: winter, the maximum temperature ! being 41.6 degrees, and the evening was ushered in by the first heavy fog. Traffic was inconvenienced, particularly in the eastern suburbs. Motorists had to travel very slowly, visibility being reduced to a few yards. No delay was caused to tram services or to trolley buses and omnibuses. Shirley, St Albans, Richmond and Woolston suffered most. In these suburbs street lamps could barely be seen from the. pavement. A taxi-driver who had to take passengers to the east, end of Gloucester Street shortly after nine o’clock said that he could not recall a worse fog in the city. Riccarton Avenue, with its new gaseous discharge lamps, must have been the best road for driving in the city. The fog gave the blue light of the lamps a greenish tinge, but the roadway was brilliantly illuminated. Shortly before midnight the fog cleared before a light south-westerly breeze and rain fell steadily most of the night. Conditions this morning were again overcast and dull, with light showers of rain at intervals.