IN THE GRIP OF FOG
MELBOURNE'S EXPERIENCE FOURTEEN IN SUCCESSION MELBOURNE, June 20. (Received June 20, at 11.42 p.m.) Melbourne is at present gripped in the longest period of heavy night fogs for many years. To-night the fourteenth successive fog, by far the most dense of the series, descended over the whole of the metropolitan area soon after dark. All traffic was seriously delayed. Many car owners abandoned their cars on the roadsides, travelling homeward by tram and train. The suburban train services have been completely disorganised, being maintained at slow speeds and aided by signal detonators on the rails. Traffic at the port is at a standstill. The mail steamer Strathnaver, which is due to berth to-night, is still out in Bass Strait. Since the series began three people have been killed in cataccidents attributable to fog. The fogs have been accompanied by freezing-point temperatures iin the mornings.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23222, 21 June 1937, Page 12
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