RED RAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1929, Page 5

RED RAIN

BLENHEIM VISITATION

METEOR THEORY ADVANCED

(By Telegraph—l J er Press Association.)

BLENHEIM, November 28

Yesterday Blenheim was deluged with red rain, a curious phenomenon whiph made itself evident by the- tinting of such delicate flowers as arum lilies a delicate pink, and the leaving of a rust-like deposit upon the foliage of plants, on wdndows of motor-cars, and along the top of fence rails. In one case, at Farnham, a lady who left a .week’s washing on the line found it so streaked with. red that the various articles will have to be’washed again. Some months ago the appearance of red rain in Blenheim and other parts of the Dominion was attributed to dust storms in Australia, it being put forward that great clouds of red dust had been blown across the Tasman at a hign altitude to fall over New Zealand.

It is considered by some , people that yesterday’s phenomenon might be accounted for by the extraordinary .electrical disturbance which was.ushered hi at dawn. •

The theory is advanced that At meteor or thunderbolt burst over Blenheim, filling the sky with minute particles of red dust, which later drifted" to., the earth with the rain. ‘