TERRIFIC GALE AT TARANAKI.
HOUSES UNROOFED AND^ FENCES LEVELLED. * j
A CHURCH AND A S3.'ABLE
WRECKED.
(BT TEMCBAPH.—PWKSS A3SOQ UTIOX.)
New Plymouth, this day,
The heaviest south-easterly gale ever felt here was blowing all yesterday and daring the night, and has not ye* expended itself. A new roof on a house was blown off. The High School chimney snapped off at the roof, and the National Bank had its roof to damaged that men bad to be got to repair it yesterday. Fences are down in all directions, including one at the Railway Station. The totalisator house on the nteeeonrse, and a stable at Weetman's honeeiiave bean blown down. A church at Omata is a wreck.
The velocity of the gale avtra^ed 36-2 per hoar daring 24 hours. Th>e gale had travelled 870 miles.
Mr Veale at the Government observatory hero says the wind blew at times with hurricane force.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 144, 18 June 1894, Page 4
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