FOG AT MELBOURNE

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 June 1937, Page 5

FOG AT MELBOURNE

TRAFFIC DISORGANISED. [by cable —ritt’.ss assn. —copyright.] (Received June 21, S a.m.) MELBOURNE, June 20. Melbourne is at present gripped in the longest period of heavy night fogs tor many years. To-night, the fourteenth in succession, the fog was by far the densest of the series. The fog descended over the whole metropolitan area soon after dark. All traffic, was seriously delayed, many car owners abandoning cars on the roadsides and travelling homeward by tram and train. Suburban train services were completely disorganised, being maintained at slow speeds, aided by signal detonators. on the rails.

Port traffic was at a standstill. The mail steamer Strathnaver, due to berth to-night, is still om in Bass Strait.

Since the- series began, three peopli have been killed in ear accidents, at Tribntablo to fog. The fogs were accompanied by freezing point temperatures in the mornings

. I GALE A.T SYDNEY SYDNEY, June 20. ; Sydney was lashed bv a week-end ■ gale, accompanied by heavy rain. t points have fallen since Thursda) i veiling. Between 9 a.m. yesterday 'an . nine to-night, four incites wi re r< ■ icorded. The wind to-day readied i fifty-six miles an hour, causing minor damage. The Manly ferry service ihad to be cancelled owing to high seas.