AWESOME CLOUDBANK
Sweeping New Zealandward Across Tasman. HAVOC IN SYDNEY. (Received 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Heavy winds recently lifted large quantities of dust from the parched areas in the West. These formed an awesome cloudbank like a fog and overshadowed the city on Saturday morning. Finally the cloud passed eastward in the direction of New Zealand. A sweltering heat .wave yesterday,, accentuated by the hot, blustering, dustladen wind from the interior plains, rendered outings extremely unpleasant. Later in the afternoon the gale was of a cyclonic force for some time and caused great damage in many suburbs. Buildings were unroofed in gome instances and the roofs carried away bodily, landing in a collapsed condition hundreds of,yards away. Windows in the city suffered severely.
Yesterday the fierce hot gale which raged for seven hours reached a maxi: mum velocity of 68 miles per hour. The temperature in Sydney was 98 degrees:
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 238, 8 October 1928, Page 7
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151AWESOME CLOUDBANK Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 238, 8 October 1928, Page 7
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