MOTOR-CARS STOPPED
AUSTRALIAN HEAT WAVE SEISMOLOGIST RETURNS (By Telegraph.—Press Association) INVERCARGILL, Sunday Heat of such intensity that it brought motor-cars to a stop was one of the most outstanding experiences of Mr H. F. Baird, seismologist at the Christchurch Magnetic Observatory, who returned to New Zealand by the Maunganui after attending the congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science. Most of those who travelled to the congress by car, Mr Baird said, found they could run for only an hour and then had to stop for half an hour. The reason was that in the modern car the petrol pump was so close to the exhaust pipe that it became overheated and the diaphragm caused a vapour lock. Mr Baird visited several observatories in Australia and was particularly interested in records of the recent earthquake in New Zealand as taken at Riverview College, Sydney. It was interesting to note, he said, that the record of shocks felt recently In the south-west of New Zealand were much greater in intensity than those reported at about the same time from Hawke’s Bay and they appeared to have come from a considerable depth.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20717, 30 January 1939, Page 8
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