FIERCE SOUTHERLY.
EXTENSIVE DAMAGE DONE,
CHRIST CHURCH LASHED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A screaming, tearing southerly gale that kept many householders awake throughout a wild night swept down on Christchureh early last evening. At 9 p.m. the barometer at the magnetic observatory registered 28.03 inches, a new low record for the city.
Extensive damage was done in the city and suburbs. Trees were blown down, fences levelled and power and telephone services in some districts temporarily interrupted.
A block of flats in Sumner was partially unroofed, and the balcony was blown from a building to the street below. Forty pine trees, from 50 to (10 feet high, were blown down at the Drainage Board's farm. A large tree in Latimer Square crashed on to a parked motor car. A telephone box was blown on its side near the Public Library.
Union Airways service was affected by the storm, the south-bound aeroplane turning back near Kaikoura and taking shelter from the storm at Blenheim.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 103, 2 May 1936, Page 10
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