FIERCE CYCLONE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 160, 8 July 1932, Page 7

FIERCE CYCLONE.

RAGING OVER N.S.W. Menace to Shipping With Much Property Damage. FALL OF SNOW IF SYDNEY. (United r.A.-Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 0.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, tiiis day. The fiercest cyclone for years is raging over the eastern half of the State. Shipping is menaced and the property damage bears testimony to the strength of the wind, which last night reached a velocity of GO miles per hour. The coastal steamers Ulmarra and Warrancen are overdue at Sydney. It is believed that tliev are sheltering along the coast. Captains of ships reaching port describe the storm as the worst experienced on the New South Wales coast.' The crew of the trawler Goolgwai had a narrow escape from disaster when part of the trawl carried away and the dangling rope fouled the propeller. The whole crew fought desperately white waves wore breaking right over the little vessel. Finally the blades were freed. Tile Weather Bureau lias issued a warning to shipping that the cyclone is increasing in intensity. South-westerly to westerly galas and rough seats could be looked for along the coast, and in the Western Tasman. Sydney and the suburbs have suffered extensively. Gardens are ruined, fences blown down, and telephone poles uprooted. The occupants of a house at Kogarah were dining when a sudden squall lifted the roof and carried it into a neighbour's yard. Rain caused the points to jam at the Central Railway Stntion, and trains were Upwards of an hour late. Yesterday the temperature at 3 o'clock was 48 degrees, the lowest at that hour for ten years. There were reports of light snowfalls in the city and suburbs, a phenomenon that has not been recorded in Sydney since 1830. Flood falls on the central and southern Highlands are predicted. IN DIRTY WEATHER. MAKURA FOR WELLINGTON. SYDNEY, July 7. When the Makura cleared the heads this evening on leaving Sydney for Wellington she ran into a 40-mile an hour south-easterly gale. There were mountainous seas and fierce rain was falling. Altogether the weather was very dirty.