AUCKLAND SHIVERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1037, 30 July 1930, Page 1

AUCKLAND SHIVERS

BUT NO ICE ON HARBOUR SO FAR FROSTY WEATHER Frost on the roof-tops, the broad highway, and the green sward, even, it is whispered, ice on a bucket left out overnight. It was cold this morning. Though the air temperature at nine o’clock was the same as that yesterday morning—44 degrees—the cold seemed to have taken a more solid form. A white cloak of frost covered j almost everything out-of-doors. Last night was bitterly cold, and j people who had spent long hours shiv- j ering under too few blankets and try- j ing to go to sleep awoke this morning j to shiver still more. “It was the coldest frost I have ever j experienced in Auckland,” an Epsom ; resident of many years’ standing, te’d j The Sun. “When I awoke I thought i the famous ICarangahape Road snow- 1 fall had shifted out our way—and ' more than half-a-dozen flakes, too. The , top of a red brick fence was quite : white, and the grass and paths were covered by frost.” HEAVY IN EPSOM At Devonp’ort thin sheets of ice formed on shallow puddles. It is stated that before the sun had warmed the waterfront the frost eou'd be seen on the wharves, turning ugly buildings into “lairy palaces.” Heavily-muffed, and occupied mostly with the arduous task of trying to warm cold fingers, travellers on the very early ferries yet had time to be impressed. Disappointment, however; there was no ice on the harbour! The ferry steamers and the first launches did not have to crunch their way across the Waitemata in the manner of those ice-breakers seen in the pictures. It seems generally accepted that the frost was heaviest in Epsom, but other districts were not far behind. A man from Balmoral says ho slipped down three times on the footpath. Mo rain has. fallen in the lost 24 hours, and a heavy dew, or a lealtv drain perhaps, ; had combined with jjie frost for lus j downfall. *