RED RAIN.
DUE TO AUSTRALIAN DUST.
EXPLANATION BY DR KIDSON.
(Per United Press Association,! WELLINGTON, November 30,
Dr Kidson considers that the red rain reported from Nelson and Blenheim was caused by dust from Australia. The prevailing winds this week were from that direction, and a similar occurrence last year was directly traced to it. The idea that it was caused by a thunderbolt was impossible, but it was well known that if dust was suspended in the atmosphere in large quantities it did cause had thunderstorms. He says it is estimated that at least 100,000 tons of Australian soil found its way to New Zealand last year, hut the only previous instance recorded was as far hack as 1902.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20889, 2 December 1929, Page 12
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