PHENOMENAL STORM
SYDNEY’S EXPERIENCE. MINIATURE RIVERS. WOMAN NEARLY DROWNED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received April 11. 9.30 a.m. SYDNEY, April 11. During the night Sydney was swept by a phenomenal storm which lashed the metropolitan area for an hour, The wind reached a velocity of 40 miles an hour, and 39 points of rain fell in 35 minutes. Miniature rivers flowed down every street. The water banked up six feet high under a bridge in Ultimo, where a woman was nearly drowned. During the downpour a woman was killed by a car at Petersham.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 115, 11 April 1930, Page 9
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96PHENOMENAL STORM Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 115, 11 April 1930, Page 9
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