HEAT & HUMIDITY
I UNPRECEDENTED CONDITIONS IN SYDNEY MOST OPPRESSIVE NIGHT ! EVER EXPERIENCED. TWENTY DEATHS YESTERDAY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Twenty persons died in New South Wales yesterday, making, all told, 61 in three days. Last night was the most oppressive ever experienced in Sydney. At midnight the temperature was 93 degrees, with a very high degree of humidity. People in the outlying suburbs sweltered in a temperature exceeding 100 degrees throughout the night.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1939, Page 5
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80HEAT & HUMIDITY Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1939, Page 5
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