BROKE THE RECORD.

New Zealand Tablet, 11 January 1917, Page 61

BROKE THE RECORD.

Mr. Stretcher: Yes, it’s cold, but nothing like what it was at Christmas three years ago, when the steam from the engines froze hard and fell on the line in sheets.’ Mr. Cuffer: ‘ And yet that wasn’t so cold as in ’B7, when it froze the electricity in the telephone wires, and when the thaw came all the machines were talking as hard as they could for upwards of five hours.’ Well, gentlemen,’ said Mr. Longbow, ‘the coldest year that I can remember was in the Christmas week in ’B4, when the very messenger boys had to run to keep themselves warm.’ But that was too much, and with silent looks of indignation the other two left to his own reflections the man who treated the truth so lightly.