CYCLONIC STORM.
Australia Has Further Rains
And Floods.
WOMAN KILLED BY LIGHTNING,
SYDNEY, January 7.
This month's unseasonable and capricious weather in the eastern States of Australia culminated in a cyclonic storm in the inland areas and torrential rain on the eastern coast yesterday. There is grave danger of floods now in Southern New South Wales and Eastern Victoria. Similar conditions obtain on the north coast of New South Wales, where many places are under water several feet deep. Violent lightning yesterday struck the Goulburn Council's sewerage works and caused heavy damage to the concrete tanks. A married woman was killed by lightning at Lithgow. Reports are arriving in Sydney of extensive damage to fruit and tomato crops. Most of the sporting fixtures yesterday were spoilt by soaking rain, and the humidity was extremely high. Lightning set -fire to crops at) Echuca and Swan Hill, Victoria, and also caused minor damage to homes in Coburg, South Yarra and St. Kilda.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 6, 8 January 1934, Page 7
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