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SYDNEY. The £eat wavewhich has produced the highest October temperatures in Sydney for four years has hit the water supply so hard that the Water Board is drafting by-laws to restrict the use of Water for gardening. With the whole of the state under a heat and dust blanket and the city ringed by bush fires, there is little prospect of early relief.
Some centres in New South Wales experienced temperatures of 100 degrees again »today and in Sydney the mercury rose to 95.5 degrees at 3 p.m. Five, thousand , officials and volunteers have been fighting more than 100 ’scrub and bush fires throughout the state. • • •
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Northern Advocate, 28 October 1948, Page 6
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