Any fashion goes, so long as it eases the withering heat that knocked Sydney out yesterday. These people came to the city hoping for the best but soon had to take off coats and vests. But even that failed to rout the dry heat. Eastern sailors wore their duck suits, while shorts and sandals were seen in the city. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 61 wordsComing with successive blasts, as from a furnace, the heatwave that struck Sydney and the rest of the State yesterday was accountable for 10 deaths and for the collapse of more than 100 persons. ...
Article : 777 wordsForty-three years ago, almost to the day, the State Meteorologist, Mr. Mares, who was then recording clerk, chalked up 108.5 degrees, a heat record for Sydney, which he did not expect ever to see eclipsed. ...
Article : 145 wordsTo-day, the blackest in Victorian history, completed the State's most terrifying week. The charred bodies of 43 people, recovered from areas swept by bush fires, brought the week's death roll to 64. ...
Article : 1,469 wordsWith the thermometer soaring, great crowds thronged the beaches. But in some instances loud speakers appealed to the people not to surf because of the danger of collapse in the heat afterwards. It was too hot to lie on ...
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Advertising : 195 wordsAs a result or a week of unprecedented heat, Sydney housewives will be faced with a shortage of green vegetables for at least two ...
Article : 114 wordsA warning by Bishop Moyes of Armidale, saved the Workers' Educational Association House, Newport, from destruction by a bushfire yesterday. Later Bishop Moyes, the Minister the Director, of Physical Education ...
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The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Sun 15 Jan 1939, Page 3
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