FOG AND RAIN IN VICTORIA
FLOOD WARNINGS ISSUED By Telegraph—Press Assn,—Copyright Received Wednesday, 10.30 p.m. MELBOURNE, May 31. Following a heavy fog which blanketed the city and south-east Victoria this morning, rain set in and continued throughout the day and evening. Flood warnings have been issued, ■So heavy was the fog that the Civil Aviation Department closed the Essendon Aerodrome until 10 a.m. All early suburban trains were late and motorcars had to use their headlights.
A« th 6 fog lifted rain began, spreading all over the State. The rain at present is not generally needed in the country and it may even do harm in some parts by preventing the sowing o 't crops.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 June 1939, Page 5
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