WHIRLING DUST.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19695, 23 January 1926, Page 12

WHIRLING DUST.

A STIFLING DAY. REFRESHING RAIN FOLLOWS. Far the past two weeks Dunedin people have been congratulating themselves on the kindly weather that has smiled upon the city and the Exhibition, at which lias sent little breezes to play with the Exhibition flags and to cool the noonday temperature. But yesterday the weather played a joke on the city. The little hreexoa got loose and swept unchecked through the streets and suburbs, and they whirled and eddied and darted round corners in a flurry of excitement that left people gasping. Clouds of dust filled the air and climbed skywards in careering columns, only to collapse in heavy blankets that penetrated everywhere —into eyes, ears, throats, clothes, through windows, doors, keyholes, ventilators and anything that was not airtight. And the heat was as stifling as the dust. However, everything comes to an end, and it was clear, from the appearance of the sky, that the heat could not last Early in the afternoon an occasional drop of rain would fall in one’s eye or splash in one’s ear, and towards five o’clock it commnoed to rain in earnest. The dust was laid in short time, and the change was a welcome and refreshing one.