WHERE IT IS REALLY COLD.

Shannon News, 1 July 1927, Page 3

WHERE IT IS REALLY COLD.

CAUSE TO SHIVER IN MACKENZ! country. ;;;\- TIMARU, Junp ,27. Cold indoors that freezes even t i dregs remaining in a teacup after ,t -wrinker. has left them but a few mi utes. - -.. ■■ ■' ; ' v j-f| That is the severity of winter year in the Mackenzie Country. .. visitor to Timaru during the week-ei ,in conversation with a represc Native, stated that he had just: ape five days in the Mackenzie Count) and his experience had been the cold) he had had in his life. On a eerta sheep run, owned by a friend, the vi tor explained, the hands had found t rigours of the climate too much i them and had. decamped. To friend, the speaker went out to the r to lend a hand with the muster'll While there he came to understand wl was meant by biting cold; “There no other word for it,” he said; “t frost simply bites you, and bites y with a grip that stings and hurts un vou almost howl with pain. ” The cold oul of doors, he went nn sav was almost unbearable, and 1 doors it was little better, There W times,” Baid the visitor, “when wp- t down to tea and were surprised to' fi a few moments after we had finish that ice had foimcd over the dregs 1 :; maining in our cups. That’s hpw « it was. ” . ’ «

“But,** he went on, “those five da were real holidays All the water c terns and pipes had been burst by;t frofct, and one did not have to hav« lath the time one was there-*’