SNOW IN SYDNEY

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1929, Page 6

SNOW IN SYDNEY

N.S.W. FLOODS FEARED

(Australian Press Association)

SYDNEY, September 10.

There were violent rain squalls along the New South: Wales coast to-day, with a wind at a velocity up to fifty miles an hour, accompanied by a severe drop in temperature. It is reported that snow fell, in some portions of Sydney this afternoon. This is an alpiost unprecedented occurrence.

Rain fell in a delugo along the coast, and flood warnings have been issued to farmers.' 1

There are mountainous seas in the Tasman.

SEVERE SNOW STORM

MUCH DAMAGE DONE. (Received this d.nv at 9.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, September 11. Snow caused a fire, which fused tlie electric light wires and plunged practically the whole of the larger towns on Blue Mountains into darkness. The snow weighed so heavily on the limb of a tree in Ivatoomba that the limb fell across electric wires which came in contact with telephone wires. A transformer box burst into flames and electric lights 'failed immediately. Snow in some places was the heaviest for thirty years.

An Antarctic cold, howling gale, driving rain, and wind-lashed sea, -were Sydney’s lot throughout the night and continuing this morning. Vessels are sheltering along the coast. Blinding squalls were responsible for many motor accidents. Six people wore seriously injured and sent to hospital. Many small boats in the harbour ux?re swamped and houses and sheds were unroofed in th.o suburbs.