STORM AT SYDNEY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21113, 22 February 1932, Page 9

STORM AT SYDNEY.

HARBOUR CRAFT CAUGHT. SEVERAL BOATS CAPSIZE. YACHT'S CREWS ESCAPE. PICKED UP BY A LAUNCH. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Receiver! February 21, 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 21. An extremely hot day was experienced in Sydney yesterday. The temperature was 100.6 degree:; at 2.40 p.m. At 5.30 p.m. sudden fierco squalls, harbingers of a storm, came up out of the south. Sailing craft of all descriptions, which had been engaged in various races or pleasure jaunts on tho harbour, were on tho way homo when the storm came and many of the smaller ones were capsized. A dense, black pall of cloud settled down and twin water-spouts appeared among tho big yachts, one striking the 21j'oot.ei New South Wales and overturning her. The owner, Mr. Wedderburn, manager of the Sydney ferries, and the crew just had time to tie a buoy to a long line and mark tho spot where the craft was sinking when they found themselves in tho water. They wero picked up by a launch piloted by Mr. Dally, a mcssengei, who had raced to tho scene. Among the other'victims of the storm was tho yacht Arawatta, the former champion 18-footer. In spite of all the upsets there were no personal casualties.