HEAVY DUST-STORM
SYDNEY'S EXPERIENCE 1 MAY REACH NEW ZEALAND (Eecd. 12.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 19 Sydney to-day was plunged into semidarkness by a heavy blanket of red dust blown from parched Central Australia. The temperature in the city rose sharply to 95 degrees, and storm clouds gathered, causing lights to be turned on in offices, motor-cars, trams and trains. Torrential rain then cooled the atmosphere. Reports from the back country state that heavy deposits of the red dust settled in homes and made living conditions most unpleasant. The worst sufferers were Broken Hill, Bourke, Wilcannia and other western towns. A meteorologist in Sydney says the wind is strong enough to carry the dust haze to New Zealand.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24127, 20 November 1941, Page 10
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