NEW SOUTH WALES SWELTERS
HEAT WAVE CONTINUES SWAMP WATER DRUNK SYDNEY, January 6. The heat wave continues in New South Wales. Three people, including a woman 100 years old and a baby five months old, died in Sydney yesterday, bringing the total deaths from heat prostration in two. days to six. Seventy more collapsed in the terrific heat. The temperature in Sydney yesterday rose to 103.7 deg. This followed the hottest night ever recorded in Sydney, when the temperature never Ml below 87deg, with a maximum of 92.8 at 9 p.m. Dust and smoke haze from inland bush fires hung over the eastern part, of New South Wales .all, yesterdays Every beach. around- Syd- 1 ney swarmed with humanity, and hundreds of fowls died at poultry farms in and around Sydney. Extraordinary scenes were witnessed at Moorefield racecourse yesterday afternoon when the water supply failed. Thousands of punters formed queues to drink water from the horse troughs and from a swamp in the centre of the course. To reach the swamp men had to scale two 4ft high fences surrounding the track and walk hundred yards across a golf 'course.
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Evening Star, Issue 25684, 7 January 1946, Page 4
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