TORRENTIAL RAIN IN SYDNEY
SYDXEY, Jan. 2. Torrential rain and tlnmderstoriiis Whieh drenehed thruisands of holiday niakers yesterday afternoon are cori timiing today. Tents are auasli and eainping g'nmnds a qtiag'niire iit resoris and heartlea sneh as Avalon, Xarrobeen and Palin Beach, wliere hnndreds oi' people are all abandonmg thei'r holidays and retunring homewards. A Highland gaihering whieh had to be abandoned last.New Year's T)ay be ■ea use of giant hailstones whieh caused tnany easualties, was flooded out yesterday but the pipers played on to the bitter end. It was the wettest Xew Year's Dav sinee 1901, for, though the morning was eloudless and rain did not start generai •ly un-t.il at'tei 7. p.m., 102 points of rain fell in the metropolitan area before 9 p.m. X'ear the township of Liverpool. 20 miles from Sydney, a nian and a horse were struek by lightning and killed in stantly. Two nien were riding in coinpany when lightning appeared to strike a rifte earried by oue of theii!. His "eompani on -s.- horse bolted. and the rivter is still partially deaf from the explosion' whieh ae'eompanied the i -lightning. . The dead nian was extensi\'ely burnvd, 'as wero the baek and saddle oT tlve horse.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 January 1948, Page 5
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