THE OPOTIKI NEWS Monday, May 8, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 179, 8 May 1939, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Monday, May 8, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

School iHolitfays. The Opotiki arid district schools closed on Friday tor the first-term vacation. Schooling will resume on May 22. Temperatures. Blue skies were reported throughout the North Island on Saturday.- Temperatures at 9 o’clock were: Auckland and Wellington 57 degrees, Tauranga arid Napier 55, Opotiki and Gisborne 53, and: East Cape 58. Motor Cycle Sioian', A motor-cycle, the property of Mr. Cecil Collier, Paerata Ridge, was removed from the roadside where it was left, on Saturday night by its owner. Mr. Collier skidded in some loose metal near the Paerata turn-off, and decided to leave the motor-cycle, by the roadside and continue the journey in his father’s car. The following day it was found that the motor-cycle had been removed. The police are making investigations. Cold Nights. Cold nights have now set in and the temperature this morning in Opotiki was a reminder that frosty clays are very near. No frosts have been registered in the borough ■ this year. Gisborne is still experiencing occasional frosts and on Saturday morning, a l'rcst. of 5.8 degrees was registered. The clear days following the cold nights are welcome after the .spell of unsettled weather and the days generally are still quite warm, Sunday being more like a summer day. Think in Millibars. Recording of barometer readings in millibars instead of inches roused the ire of an Auckland fisherman to suo,h an extent that lie wrote to the Government Meteorologist, Dr. E. Kidson, protesting that he could not make head or tail of the new procedure which was ‘•foreign to my ideas ” In reply, Dr. Kiclson has pointed out that the new system has come to stay and adds this advice: “The besttiling for you/to do is to get firmly fixed in your, mind what the readings mean and force yourself to think in millibars. Thus, 1030 millibars and over means very high pressure, 1020 is moderately high, 1010 is about average, and 1000 is low. Anything below 990 is verv low.”