HEAT WAVE

Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1930, Page 5

HEAT WAVE

; MANY WORKERS COLLAPSE. f-r- (United Prßn Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright), LONDON, August 30. • The heat Avave temperature has cans ed the deterioration and destruction of , t seven thousand gallons of milk at the Southwest London depot. . ; . ’ r The hairdressers are busy shearing the women’s, hair. The heat wave may result in ' the return off the Eton crop. Many of the Leicestershire colliers had to be brought to the surface to be treated. A number of Derbyshire iron workers collapsed. The i Staffordshire and Worcester-] shire steel works are idle. 5 , ■•'•Two more elderly men have died. ■• MANY MORE DEATHS. . STORMS DO MUCH DAMAGE, tONDON, August 30,; J Despite: the clearing effects of the thunderstorm and a drop in tempera* ture - of fourteen degrees, -London continues to swelter under tropical heat. Excessive humidity has nullified the fall in the temperature. : Twelve more deaths from heat ate reported, including ifarm hands while 1 harvesting. : Lightning struck a steamer anchored in harbour, causing water to rush into the fengine-room: j A Belgian air liner, flying from .Brussells .to. London, was struck by lightning. It was unable to . pick up . the direction signals, and AV'as com-. , pelled to return to. Brussells. (

.. Reports from all. parts of England refer to houses and .churches being ! •• struck by lightning, apd.more or less, damaged. , . .

- .. Hail has smashed ;/hundreds of windoAvs in-Scotland. , ,

LONDON IN A STORM. ... LONDON, August 30. • The stifling heat ..in ..London continued till midnight,, when a thunderstorm broke unexpectedly, though terrific storms in Northern England had previously been reported. Lightning of a most vivid character lit up the - sky, with heavy wind and a downpour of rain reaching torrential limits in some parts of London, UNUSUAL INCIDENTS, ' LONDON, August 29. A party of seven youths were refused, drinks at a West End restaurant because they: were not wearing coats. A protest to the manageress was unavailing. Two girls in bathing dresses and parasols rode on a bus top to the Serpentine, which was crowded with swijmmers. The police vainly tried to prevent' three hundred impatient youths undressing on the grass, aftbr a long futile wait at the entrance vof. the bathing sheds.

y The Willesden Council permitted f all night mixed bathing in the open air baths.

A striking sight at Wellington barracks was a detachment of young guardsmenj dressed in bathers’ carrying towels at the “port,” giving “eyes left,” as they departed for the morning, swim, while sentries returned the salute.

Business girls are increasingly going without stockings. Tire cafes are prowded until five in the morning.

Owing ot the collapse df several soldiers, the manoeuvres at Aidershot, where 5000 men are campaigning, has been stopped. The forcast is for a continuance of heat over England, and local thunderstorms in Wales and Scotland. The Association football season opens to-morrow, but play is within the discretion of the umpires. ELECTRICAL STORM. LONDON’S EXPERIENCE. 1 (Received this dav at. 11 a.tn.'i RUGBY, Aug. 31. The London heat wave reached its climax at midnight when an electri-, cal storm broke over the Capital and continued for about three hours. Thp storm was heralded by vivid lightning 'unaccompanied by thunder. Then came thunder. It increased in intensity. People returning from the theatres were caught in the storm. Thunderstorms occurred in other parts of England and Scotland. Yesterday the aeroplane in which the Prime Minister was flying from Hendon to Lossiemouth ran into a storm north of Cnterich aerodrome, Yorkshire. For a long period last night nothing was known of his whereabouts because both Catterich and Lossiemouth were out of telephone communication with London. Later it was learned that the plane had turned backhand landed safely .at Catterich, when Mr MacDonald con-: tip nod his journey by train.