ROUGH WEATHER AT SYDNEY
HIGH SEAS DAMAGE PROMENADES (Rec. 9 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 19. Police are stationed on Sydney beaches and cliffside paths to prevent tragedies on a coast battered by huge waves. The recent gales have dropped considerably, and the lowest temperature to-day was 47.2 degrees, but the seas have not yet moderated. The Weather Bureau forecast is for further showers, cold strong winds, and rough to high seas. Parts of the promenade at Balmoral beach, inside Sydney harbour, have been undermined, causing several pylons to collapse, taking with them portion of the promenade. The Balmoral baths, on which £3OOO was spent in recent repairs, are reduced to wreckage. They were a large wooden piling structure similar to the Te Aro baths, Wellington. A section of the Manly Pool promenade has collapsed. The minimum temperature in Melbourne to-day was 30.1 degrees, which is the lowest since August, 1944. By 9 a.m. the air temperature was still hovering about freezing point
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25551, 20 July 1948, Page 5
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