SWELTERING HEAT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19737, 13 March 1926, Page 18

SWELTERING HEAT.

SYDNEY’S COMPLAINT. BUT HOTTER PLACE KNOWN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, March 3. For weeks Sydneysiders were sweltering in beat ranging from the 90's to as high as 107, but, with the surf al their front door, they would possibly be a little more reconciled to their fate if they were transported to a little, old-established rural settlement known as Kayuga on tho Hunter River in Now South Wales. The teacher of the school there has expressed his sympathy with the Sydneysiders, in a delightfully satirical letter, and which incidentally. rs elnoueut witness to the fact that the grievances of the country are not all imaginary. The letter in parts' is worth quoting. “Mv school,” says the teacher, “is 33ft by ISft by 12ft, and lias an average attendance of 25 pupils. Our thermometer hangs inside tho building, which is the coolest, part of the place. I append the registration o. temperature for the first fortnight or so of February out of sympathy for the poor citi-j-ons of Sydney who are ‘sweltering’ under the intense heart. The registrations are: February 1, HGdeg; February 2, Iflodeg; February 3, IMdeg; February 4, IMdeg, February 5, 9Sdeg; February 6, KNdeg, February 7, IMdeg; February 8, IKxieg, February 9, HOdeg; February 10, lOOdeg; February 11, 102 do g; February 12, 107 deg; February 13, HOdeg; February M, HOdeg; February 15, HOdeg; February Kb HOdeg. Ono can readily believe the writer of the letter that he has never experienced anything approaching Kayuga for heat. He finds comfort and consolation, however, iu tho fact that it might be worse for ha cheerfully adds that before the good old summer time passes Kayuga fully expects to register 120 deg.