18 DEGREES OF FROST.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 182, 3 July 1937, Page 11

18 DEGREES OF FROST.

INVERCARGILL’S EXPERIENCE. PLUMBERS IN DEMAND. Per Press Association. INVERCARGILL, July 2. What is belived to be a record frost for Invercargill, 18 degrees, was registered this morning. Since last Saturday there has been hardly a clond in the sky, and each night lias been cold, clear and frosty, followed by bright, sunny days. It i 6 as cold tonight .as it was last night, and if a new record is established in the morning it would not cause any surprise. The ground in shaded parts is now as lia.rd as a rock. More water-pipes were burst in more houses to-day than on any other day during the week. The demand for plumbers is enormous but, according to one man, to-day marked only the beginning of the rush. A number of pipes have not yet thawed, and it is when they' do that they begin to burst. The number of householders requiring the services of plumbers has been so great that in many cases only temporary repairs have been done. The work will have to bo completed later. The severity of the frost was felt not only in homes. Garages are reported to have bad a busy time repairing hurst radiators of cars, mainly as a result of the outflow pipes being frozen.

Degrees of frost registered in Invercargill during the week have been as follows: Saturday 12, Sunday 16, Monday 12, Tuesday 10, Wednesday 5. . Queenstown has also been experiencing very severe frosts. Twenty-two degrees of frost have been registered, and the ground is frozen to a depth of over a foot. Many, households have been put to great inconvenience because of burst pipes, and housewives had some difficulty in jia.nging out washing because of the clothes being frozen stiff before they were able to bo hung on the line.