REMARKABLE DUST STORM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18763, 17 January 1923, Page 6

REMARKABLE DUST STORM

NEW SOUTH WALES VISITATION. iFkom Ocn Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, January 11. The Western districts uf Mew South Wales were visited lasc we.cn. by a leniariiable (lust fctorm, the worst ioi' 50 years. There have been isolated storms ot greater intensity such as that winch almost, completely domolished the town ot Novertire some years ago, but never hos such an immense' urea, oi country been swept by wind and enveloped in dust. Water carts worked all day in the streets of Dubbo, and though the temperature was low, the effect of the watering could not be seen live minutes after the carts had passed any spot. In towns without lights in the houses, and in the streets for many hours one could not see any object a few yards away for dual. The streets were deserted, and all work on farms and stations had to be suspended. Mail drivers and those who had -lieen out in the country had to seek shelter, and owing to the density of the clouds of dtu-t it was impossible for them to proceed on their ways. A dust and rain storm of exceptional violence passed over Trangie and district. By noon the wind had increased to a gale, with dense cloud? of dust, and continued with cyclonic force till nearly sundown. The roofs of several building 3 were blown away. The western mail coach shortly after leaving Trangie ran into the worst of the storm, the dust being so dense that the driver sounded his whistle continuously for pome distance. Old hands in the district, declared that they had never experienced such weathar.