HEAT WAVE IN N.S.W.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1929, Page 3

HEAT WAVE IN N.S.W.

CHINESE RUNS AMOK.

(Australian Press Association) (United Service.) SYDNEY, Jan. 9. The high temperature rilling throughout the state during the past 'week, reached a peak to-day, the thermometer in Sydney running from 8(5.79 tm the morning to 99.5 at 10 o’clock, 100 at 11, 10-1 at noon, and 104.7 at ono o’clock.

During the same period humidity foil from 54 per cent to 18 per cent. The Government .meteorologist, Mr Mares, blames the wind which during the forenoon changed from east to north-west, bringing heated air from the interior, to strike the city street traveller like a- blast from a furnace. A Chinese, whose name is unknown, supposedly overcome by heat, run amok at midday at Milsons Point ferry wharf rail station. It is stated that he attempted to seize a. woman by the hroat, at the foot of the Escalators. She eluded him, hut he reached out and seized tile girl, and nearly forced her to the ground, when Aubrey Bull, a telegraphist, knocked tlfc Chinaman out with a punch on the jaw.

The girl was not seriously hurt, but was much shaken. The Chinese was arrested.

The maximum temperature in-Syd-:cv to-day was 10(5.2 at 2.30 p.m., which is the highest reading for ’the month of January since 1896, when the record then established was 108.5 on January 13th.