CAMP WRECKED.
STORM AT MILFORD SOUND. fPer Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, September 29. A violent north- , - fcerly storm on September 14 wrecked No. 1 Public Works camp at Milford Sound, but no one was injured. Thunder and lightning accompanied the gale, which plucked tents from the ground and dumped them hundreds of feet away. Trees were uprooted and sheets of iron hurtled through tho air. Although no one was injured there were many narrow escapes. One workman was lying in. bed with measles when an iron gable shorn from a hut some distance away was hurled against his tout. It struck one of the stout poles of the tent and the man was unscathed.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 300, 30 September 1938, Page 3
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