FIERCE TEMPERATURES
WHOLE CONTINENT
SEVERAL DEATHS CAUSED
(Received January 11, 1.10 p.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
The intense heat which is affecting almost the whole of the Commonwealth created new records yesterday in Adelaide where the temperature of 116.9 degrees was the highest ever recorded there.
Melbourne's maximum was 112.5 degrees and broke a record which has stood for 77 years. Other temperatures in Victoria ranged to 121 degrees. In New South Wales the highest reading was 119 degrees at Bourke. Three elderly men and a youth collapsed and died in Melbourne and three men died at Mildura. Four people have died in Cootamundra, New South Wales, this week.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 8, 11 January 1939, Page 9
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108FIERCE TEMPERATURES Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 8, 11 January 1939, Page 9
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