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Canberra Rocked
By Sharp
Thunderstorm
Early on Saturday evening the
Canberra district was rocked by
the reverberations from a sharp
thunderstorm which developed
shortly after sunset and con-
tinued at intermittent intervals
throughout the night with some
heavy rain.
Fortunately the storm did ap-
preciably no damage but 56
points of rain were recorded up
till 9 a.m. yesterday.
FURTHER RAINS ARE
PREDICTED
SYDNEY, Sunday.
Further scattered showers of
rain are expected in southern
border districts to-morrow, a
weather Bureau official said to-
night.
Until 9 a.m. to-day a cooler
westerly change brought scatter-
ed rain to the southern portion
of the State and thunderstorms
to the southern tablelands and
slopes.
Canberra recorded 56 points of
rain, Cootamundra 48 and Hol-
brook 30.
Temperatures to-day were
cooler in the southern part of the
State, but were above average in
the northern section. Sydney
recorded a maximum of 76.1 de-
grees at 2.5 p.m., 10.2 degrees
above the average daily reading
for May.
Highest readings were Bourke
80 degrees, Walgett 78 and Syd-
ney 76.
Canberra recorded a minimum
of 43 degrees, Tamworth 44 and
Cooma 45.
BLACK-OUT LAST NIGHT
Canberra was blacked out for
10 minutes last night when a
mechanical breakdown occurred
in the southern electricity supply
service at Burrinjuck.
The interruption occurred at
5.45 p.m. and left the capital
without power or lighting, tele-
phones, and other essential ser-
vices.
Hurricane lamps were requisi-
tioned at the Canberra Hospital
where a few minutes before the
failure, a minor operation had
taken place.
Battery - operated telephones
were the only ones to function
in this period during which wire-
less stations went off the air.
Warning of the breakdown
came in a slight flicker in lights
a few minutes before the black-
out.
Fears of a long breakdown
were dispelled when at 5.55 p.m.
as suddenly as it shut off, supply
returned to Canberra.
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