TANGLED RUINS.
INGLEWOOD DAMAGE. TERRIFIC WIND GUSTS. ROOFS ' LIFTED, WINDOWS GONE. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. Gusts of terrific intensity that were the culmination of twelve hours of howling gaie- did great damage and thousands of pounds will not pay repair bills in Inglewood and surrounding districts. The badminton hall was reduced to a heap of splintered woodwork and twisted iron. Hurled half across the •roadway, the top part of the building used by the liugby League as training quarters was lifted bodily off its lower framework and debris was scattered over a radius of a quarter of a mile. A verandah at the side of the Inglewood Hotel was ripped from its supports and fragments of iron were blown more than 300 yards away to the borough pound. Shop windows were blown in and a great belt of macrocarpa trees on Rata Street, at the western entrance to the town, was smashed down on the power and telegraph wires. Limbs and trunks of trees five feet in diameter lie in a tangled ruin of wire and snapped posts across the road. Confusion. Yesterday afternoon the town was a scene of indescribable confusion. Iron fragments, wood, broken glass, small I limbs and litter lay deep in the streets. Felices were flattened, windows blown in and roofs lifted bodily from scantlings. Nearly every tree and pole on the streets exposed to the full force of the wind leaned drunkenly to the northwest. Cutfield Street suffered, perhaps, the most widespread damage of all. .j Chimneys were razed and fence posts snapped off short. Several houses were unroofed completely. Gardens were mere heaps of earth, debris and uprooted plants. The roof of one of the borough council sheds was lifted off and hurled across the street 20 feet in the air and crashed down on to the roof of a house, where it cut through two brick chimneys and, deflected, hurled 011 obliquely to bring down three or four telephone poles. The whole system of wiring was in an inextricable tangle.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 28, 3 February 1936, Page 9
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341TANGLED RUINS. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 28, 3 February 1936, Page 9
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