LOST DAYLIGHT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4823, 16 March 1925, Page 3

LOST DAYLIGHT.

. DENSITY OF LONDON FOGS. Mr -A. E. Batt, a Wellington busi,ness man,’ who recently returned fr m a. visit to England, states that the last English winter was a record one fcr fogs. No fewer than nineteen whole days were lost to the London public as far as daylight was concerned, <m one occasion when he was in tne metropolis daylight disappeared suddenly on a Sunday afternoon, and was missing entirely until the following Friday. During that period < f darkness an attempt was made to lighten the gloom by providing some 1600 spirit flares in the columns of flame only served to make the: darkness visible. It was estimated that during these fogs some 90 tons of soot fell to ear*h every twenty-four hours, a calculation batsed on the aualys’s of given quantities or areas of _fo« -laden air. Another, .expert expressed the opinion that the fog cost commereiel London £20,000 an hour, wiiereitpcn a wag suggested in one of the papers that if these fogs were so costly the British Government should sell them to America in order to reduce the National Debt 1 London’s weather was respotis.ble for Mr Batt contracting double quinsy, and he was ordered out of it to save further throat trouble.