MIXED WEATHER

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 725, 28 December 1933, Page 5

MIXED WEATHER

(Press Assn.-

CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRALIA PROVIDES DIVERSE CONDlTIONS FLOODS AND SUNSHINE

-By Telegraph — Onpyrlght).

SydVvey, Oec. 27. Beautiful weather was experiencefi in Sydney on Boxing Day, and it is estimated that 150,000 spent the day at the beaches. Melbourne too, experienced good weather, but more than 50 homes at Kensington are still surrounded by an evil-smelling sea of silt and debris left by the Christmas night flood. Hundreds of people spent Boxing Day shovelling mud out of their homes. Rows of houses are expeeted to be untenable for weeks. At Brisbane holiday-makers experienced a tropical disturbance. Campers on the beach were Washed out, nearly seven inches of "rain falling along the coast. Small floods occurred iU some places. The Ascot racecourse was fiooded, and the -raees were postponed. A'Thunderstorm in Snowtown, 90 ,nllles north of Adelaide, xesulted in 'three inches of rain in an hour and hailstones as big as moth balls. The railway darn overflowed and houses were inundated, A washaway which occurred on the railway line delayed the trains. A flood of water about a mile wide descended on the townshib of Caltowie from the adjacent hills. It swamped many homes and business places. The streets and some houses were fiooded in Maltala, which also experienced a storm.