TORRID HEAT
NEW RECORDS ESTABLISHED ■IN AUSTRALIA TEMPERATURE OF 116.9 DEGREES IN ADELAIDE. SEVERAL DEATHS REPORTED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The intense heat which is affecting almost the whole Commonwealth created new records yesterday. In Adelaide the temperature of 116.9 degrees was the highest ever recorded there. Melbourn’e maximum, 112.5, broke the record wmeh has stood for seventy-seven years. Other temperatures in Victoria ranged to 121 degrees. The New South Wales highest reading was 119 degrees, at Bourke. Three elderly men and a youth collapsed and died in Melbourne, and three men died at Mildura. Four people have died in Cootamundra, New South Wales this week.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1939, Page 5
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114TORRID HEAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1939, Page 5
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