EXTREME HEAT IN MELBOURNE. 21 Jan 1908. The Commonwealth weather bureau reported 107.2 at 3.36 p.m. = 41.7 Celsius.
EXTREME HEAT IN MELBOURNE. (1908, January 21). The Horsham Times (Vic. : 1882 – 1954), p. 3. Retrieved January 19, 2023, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/72806520?searchTerm=extreme%20heat%20in%20melbourne#
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Telegraphing at 7.30 p.m. last night our Melbourne correspondent says : Hot winds have been prevailing all day. The maximum shade temperature is 106 degrees.
The city is smothered in dust and tar fumes, the city council having put down fresh coats of tar and sand in Swanston street.
Mae Robertson has closed down his confectionery factory, owing to the heat, and 700 hands have been thrown out of work.
Guest’s biscuit factory has been closed, but the firm is generously paying its employees their wages.
At the Stock Exchange one of the members tried to adjourn the sittings, but failed.
Mr. John Wren was obliged to postpone the Fitzroy race meeting through the great heat.
There were 14 corpses at the Morgue to-day, and the stench was unbearable. The Morgue is not sewered, and all the drainage from the corpse washings, post mortems, etc., runs into the Yarra.
Nearly all the metropolitan schools were closed to-day.”
A cool change was reported from Warrnambool at 2.30 p.m., and it is expected to reach Melbourne at 7.30 p.m.
Rumors of a cyclone at Adelaide, and floods at Ballarat, were in languid circulation during the afternoon.
The Commonwealth weather bureau reported 107.2 at 3.36 p.m.; Gaunt’s thermometer, 110 degrees.
Two more infants, five months old, from Nurse Clayton’s baby farm Preston, died to-day.