RED RAIN
COMMON IN AUSTRALIA BIG DUST STORMS RAGING When dust storms have been raging in Australia’s dust bowl, which takes in most of the inland area, red rain is common —rain which falls through the dust pall overhanging the country. When a really big storm blows up inland, 11,000,000 tons of valuable top soil is swept into the air, experts estimate. Some comes down on the coast, some settles in the Tasman Sea and helps to thicken the red sediment which coats part of the sea-bed there, while some carries on and paints a pink tinge on the snow of the New Zealand Alps.
Wind erosion has affected 10,000,000 acres of Victoria alone. The State Rivers Commission spends £lOO.OOO a year on clearing sand out of its irrigation channels, trains are derailed and roads covered. But the dust goes on piling up. Loss of productivity is estimated at £500,000 a year.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3295, 2 August 1943, Page 6
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152RED RAIN Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3295, 2 August 1943, Page 6
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