VOLCANIC DUST

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23289, 27 August 1945, Page 4

VOLCANIC DUST

Wellington Showered (N.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON, Au:.’.'. 25. Dust from Mount Ruapehu reachec Wellin'!ton yesterday and in some suburbs settled on roofs and windows of houses. There was a pronouncec haze over the city and the western sky in the late afternoon assumed ar unusual brown tinge. The moon lasl nir.ht was surrounded by a coron.r owing to the presence of dust particle' in the atmosphere. In Lower Hutt yesterday vegetable leaves h id a fine roaling <-t erev du. i I and at Pa ran.ira unm. wh'-re i hnzf i almost ill,'.- em ed K ipi!i 1 land. : I eon. id< ! ahlf it v ol du •: I'll home idasshom.es routed err, Trees on liir windward -ide cnlirriei la la'.oroi d:rd and il ai-o arrmmilalet Jon wmdsrroia: o! bm: ' and car I I.inton Coal Mine.—Reports havi been r.urrent in Duiwdiii lhal thi Linton coal mine in Southland ha