RED RAIN
COMMON IN AUSTRALIA
BIG DUST STORMS RAGING
When diLs't storms have been racing in Australia's tlust bowl, which takes in most of the inland area, red rain is common —rain which falls through the dust pall overhanging the country. When a really big storm blows up inland, 11,000,,000 tons of valuable top soil is swept into* the air, experts estimate. Some comes dawn on the coast some settles in the Tasman Sea and helps to thicken the red .sediment which coats part of the sea-bed there while some carries on and paints a pink tinge on the snow of the New Zealand AlpsWind erosion has affected 10,000,,000 acres of Victoria alone. The State llivers Commission spends £100,000 a year on clearing sand out of its irrigation channels, trains are derailed and roads covered. But the dust goes on piling up. Loss of productivity is estimated at £500,,000 a veai\
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 97, 10 August 1943, Page 6
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151RED RAIN Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 97, 10 August 1943, Page 6
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