SNOW AND FROST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 December 1927, Page 5

SNOW AND FROST.

‘ SOLD SEASON IN ENGLAND. ' WORST FOR MANY YEARS. £ress Association-Electric Telegraph-Copy rißffi LONDON, Monday. Snow and frost have arrived in England bag and baggage, for this is the coldest season for many years. Snow ■was falling in London all last night, and the Air Ministry predicts that the temperature will not rise above freezing point before Christmas. Winter sports are in progress throughout England, tobogganing and Nki-ing in Yorkshire and Derbyshire, and skating everywhere, including Lonthe water in the parks is with ice, as are also the fountains in Trafalgar Square. 'Clear skies make real Christmas weather. Heavy snowfalls continue over the whole country as far west as Dorsetshire, and road traffic is hindered. Similar severity of weather is reported in Europe. Many deaths have occurred in France, where snow fell as far south as Toulon, where it is almost unknown, and similarly at Nice and •Cannes. Reports from Rome show that (bitter cold prevails and the unusual spectacle of a snow-covered city is to bo seen. There have .been incessant .falls of snow throughout Austria, causing serious delay to express tarins. Ten thousand people are engaged in clearing snow from the streets of "Vienna, -where the wealthy are doing their shopping trips in sleighs. A great gale is raging in the Atlantic and several liners arc delayed.