HEAVY FALLS OF SNOW IN NEW SOUTH WALES
SYDNEY, July 16. Gales are causing havoc in New South Wales high country. Whipped by a 60-mile an hour blizzard, a foot of snow has fallen >on Kiandra and nearby districts.- The temperature is lodeg below freezing and the main road is blocked for four miles. During the last 24 hours Kiandra registered its lowest temperature for the year — Bdeg Fahrenheit. Near Kiama, 75 miles south of Sydney, on the coast, a goods train crashed into a waiting shed which had been blown on to the line by the gale. In the same area many houses were unroofed and one was wrenched from its foundations. Nobody was injured.
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Evening Star, Issue 26155, 17 July 1947, Page 5
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116HEAVY FALLS OF SNOW IN NEW SOUTH WALES Evening Star, Issue 26155, 17 July 1947, Page 5
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