NINE-DEGREES FROST

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 146, 8 July 1937, Page 4

NINE-DEGREES FROST

Water in Exposed Pipes Frozen This Morning SNOW^CAPPED RANGES A aevere frost of nine degrees, the most severe since the beginning of June, was experienced in Hastings this morning. Lawns and gardens were oovered with a heavy white mantle, Water in jugs and in the more exposed water-pipes was frozen, and small particles of ice made their appearance when the water was turned on. Water iu some of the side-pools at the fountain in Clive Square, Napier, was also frozen Y esterday was one of the coldest days experienced in Hastings for some time, a biting southerly wind from the snow-capped ranges keeping temperatures low all day. Ranges in the high country in the pnovince are heavily coated with snow, the fall being particularly heavy on the Ruahines and Kawckas. The Kahuranakis were also snow-capped. . Although the weather 'yesterday morning broke clear and fine and there was no frost, the air remained ehilly all day. Drifting flakes of snow made their appearance in Napier between 6.30 and 7 o'clock, and there was a light fall at Te Pohue. On the Napier-Gisborne road between three and four inches of snow fell at Wharerata, .between Morere and Gisborne, and motorists had to exercise care in driving over the thawing layer.