{"id":3850,"date":"2022-01-25T02:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=3850"},"modified":"2022-01-25T02:30:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T15:30:08","slug":"mildura-fruit-season-jan-5-1906-the-maximum-shade-heat-recorded-at-the-post-office-to-day-by-one-of-the-government-instruments-was-123-deg-50-5-celsius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=3850","title":{"rendered":"MILDURA FRUIT SEASON Jan 5 1906. The maximum shade heat recorded at the post office to-day by one of the Government instruments was 123 deg. = 50.5 Celsius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILDURA FRUIT SEASON (1906, January 13). <i>Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 &#8211; 1931)<\/i>, p. 9. Retrieved January 25, 2022, from <a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/163061344?searchTerm=mildura%20fruit%20season#\">https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/163061344?searchTerm=mildura%20fruit%20season#<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zone onPage readMode\" data-page-id=\"19064135\" data-x=\"1840\" data-y=\"5920\" data-w=\"804\" data-h=\"35\" data-rotation=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"paragraph onPage\">\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">MILDURA, January 5.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zone onPage readMode\" data-page-id=\"19064135\" data-x=\"1840\" data-y=\"5957\" data-w=\"804\" data-h=\"562\" data-rotation=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"paragraph onPage\">\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">The maximum shade heat recorded at the post office to-day by one of the Government instruments was 123 deg. There was no wind.<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">The forecast is &#8220;Continued great heat inland, with northerly winds.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">This temperature, unless accompanied by high winds, will not damage the crops of fruit. Last year at the beginning of January the heat reached 122\u00bd deg., with heavy north winds, and reduced the crop all round 60 per cent.<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">There is almost certain to be a great shortage of labour for the fruit harvest. The canning factories are working long hours, and it is just possible that Swallow &amp; Ariell will send labour from their Port Melbourne factory.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zone onPage readMode\" data-page-id=\"19064135\" data-x=\"2646\" data-y=\"235\" data-w=\"792\" data-h=\"140\" data-rotation=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"paragraph onPage\">\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">A heavy crop of all sorts of fruits is probable.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILDURA FRUIT SEASON (1906, January 13). Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 &#8211; 1931), p. 9. Retrieved January 25, 2022, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1725,59,1743,21,952,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3851,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions\/3851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}