SWELTEBING HEAT

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 24, 29 January 1934, Page 10

SWELTEBING HEAT

SYDNEY'S EXPERIENCE Passengers who' arrived from Sydney by. the Marama today spoke of the recent heat wave in the New South Wales capital as an experience that they would hay« preferred to miss.' | A Well-known medical man said that lit was "dreadfully hot." The temperature was as high as 103 degrees at noon, nnd'it was rather surprising that there were so few eases of people being overpowered by the heat. This was the more remarkable when o.ne noticed that almost everybody was wearing tweeds. It would have been possible to count, on the fingers-the men wearing Palm Beach or Shantung suitings. Tho others v simply endured the heavier materials, and when they became too hot they removed their coats and went about their business as before. The reason for this apparently illogieajl practice was that washing was too expensive. Tho light materials needed frequent attention, and the cost of maintaining a well-groomed appearance in 1 them was prohibitive, so tho men of Sydney, or most of them, carried, on with the conventional tweeds and serges and saved money at the expense of fiheir comfort. Another remarkable thing about the heat wave was the way the temperature dropped as the Marama left Sydney behind. By the time-the "steamer was 36 hours out the temperature was down as many degrees, and the passengers were shivering with the ■ <".omparative cold.