A THAW
WHAT IT REVEALS.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at 11 a.m.)
LONDON, Feb. 21
After ten days icy conditions Londoners to-da.y revelled in a temperature of seventy in the sun, but to thousands it means extreme discomforture. the thawing of frozen pipes revealing hitherto undetected bursts which Hooded their houses. The thaw was responsible for a mass of ice crashing down on an ascending cage at Bestowad Colliery. Nottingham, crushing the roof and killing to and injuring three miners. Tin, warmth suddenly ended the skating boom It is revealed that f»> soiiredays four Royal brothers daily skated on a lake in the l’alaee grounds.
FROST LESSENING. RL'CBY, Feb. 21
In London only one degree of frost was registered during the night, wit-li more in the suburbs and over most of the country. London’s temperature rose this morning well above freezing point, although the frost continues in Lincolnshire Echo, North ol England and Scotland.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1929, Page 5
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158A THAW Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1929, Page 5
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