SYDNEY LASHED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1936, Page 12

SYDNEY LASHED.

SEVERE CYCLONE. LUXURY SCHOONER DAMAGED. hxjrled across jetty. • "The most severe cyclone in my experience," was how Mr. M. F. Albert described a terrific storm and gale that swept Sydney 011 Tuesday night. Mr. Albert's £30,000 luxury schooner, Boomerang, which was moored in Elizabeth Bay, Sydney Harbour, was blown ashore during the niglit. Mr. Albeit, who is managing director of the music firm of J. Albert and Son, Ltd., and Mrs. Albert were through passengers to San Francisco on the liner Mariposa, which arrived in Auckland this morning. Mr. Albert said that it was not until after the Mariposa had left Sydney on Wednesday morning that he learned-of the mishap to the Boomerang. The gale, the velocity of which was estimated at anything from 70 to 80 miles an hour, snapped a one-inch chain hawser and blew the 70-ton schooner across a jetty and on to the shore of Elizabeth Bay. There was a caretaker aboard at the time, but such was the force of the cyclone that he was powerless to do anything. The caretaker,, fortunately, escaped injury. Mr. Albert said that after reading the news he kept in touch with Sydney bv means of radio messages. The last message he received stated that the schooner had beqn refloated and had not been extensively damaged..