NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1929, Page 8

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

BELOW ZERO RECORDS. The frigid temperature of 17 degreecs below zero i -!9 degrees of frost) registered at Munich and Stettin during the recent arctic spell, is said to be the lowest German record for the last 200 years. The British Isles can equal! that ’without' going back two centuries, for a similar temperature was officially recorded at Brnemar in February, 1895, and in the-same month an unofficial reading of 23 degrees below zero (55 degrees of frost) was reported from Black Adder, Berwick. The lowest English temperature, also recorded in February, 1895, was 11 degrees below zero (13 degrees of frost), a re-, cord set up at Buxton. But all these temperatures- are comfortably warm compared with the worst our planet can do. During the winter of 1872 an Australian geologist made a trip to Nova Zembla, and survived a temperature of 91 degrees below zero (123 degrees of frost), so far as is known a world’s record. A L 1.-TN-O'NE MAC HI NK. The time—within the next ten years —when the gramophone, broadcasting, wireless manufacturing and oven the film industries will all he handed together into one common working agreement is forecast by Air Louis Sterling, chairman of the Coliunha Gramophone Co. Mr Sterling, who has just recently returned from China and Japan, said in an interview the other day that il should be possible in the near future for the household of average means tr possess a machine with three buttons’’ one far turning on music, another foi a film, and llie third for reproducin' or nicking up broadcast dialogue. Dealing with the question of longer gramophone records, he said they hoped soon to have 15-minute records, by means of electrical machines which <liU not require such deep or wide “cuts.’ When the problem of cost had beer surmounted, there would come tie sqxiol, which would he capable of taking the longest orchestral piece without a break in the reproduction. He add ed that the demand for records from Japan was almost entirely for Beethoven, Mozart-, Brahms and Wagner. There were several first-class orchestra; in Japan. HATCHING EGGS EXPLODE. More than 1000 eggs, in various stages of hatching, exploded with a noise like pistol shots during a fire a few weeks ago, which destroyed five large incubators at tbe borne in Chcrtsey (Surrey )of Dr Crowley, a fowl breeder. Song; of the eggs contained chickens on the point of hatching. All that was found when tbe fire bad burnt itself out wore pieces of broken shells. A BRENT-MI N DED GENERA L. A Brighton policeman discovered a car obstructing North Road. There was no one in it, and the constable waited for six hours. He then took tho car to thy Town Hall, where it rr mained for two days before it was claimed. At the local police court Brig. General Julius Ralph Young was fined 20s for the obstruction and 10s for failing to carry the prescribe'' lights. His solicitor said the general was undoubtedly absent-minded. General Young was looking for a flat in Brighton and completely forgot about: the existence of bis car.