DROUGHTS LEGACY
N.S.W. LOST MORE THAN MILLION SHEEP COOL CHANGE IN SYDNEY Recd. 6 p.m. Jan. 8. While the drought, which has already caused the loss of more than a million sheep, continues in the far west of New South Wales, normal warm weather conditions are returning to Sydney. Pastoral Protection Board officials estimate that almost half of the 2.250,000 sheep in the drought belt, which extends south from Bourke to the Victorian border, have been lost. In the Sydney area a cool change has succeeded the two-day heat wave and yesterday’s maximum temperature of 68.4 degrees, was trn degrees below normal for this time of the year. Maximum readings of 102 on Friday and 103.7 on Saturday, constituted a record in Sydney’s weather h story. The previous record occurred in 19£$, with 104. and 99 on two sucresftv'4 day*.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 7, 9 January 1946, Page 5
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