DAMAGE BY GALE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 189, 12 August 1938, Page 14

DAMAGE BY GALE.

HUTS • TURNED ROUKD.

MANY BUILDINGS UNROOFED.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, Thursday. Most of:the down launches driven ashore afc Ficton by the gale are still •ground, and are awaiting the spring s|r tide to refloat them* v The damage in HJ, * e majority of cases is not serious. Details of the experience* at the Couth Island Main Trunks railway camps along the . Marlborough east coast disclose that the gale developed ;,,J ' With,.. startling rapidity following a morning of pleasant and calm conditloßi# viitvjiw single men's camp, known $$$ Shand's, some huts were turned round 5; end several- were unroofed. The office fev and r ? partof the fitting shop were Unroofed and timber from a stack was ■tattered Ukf and wide. At the Jmiseed camp three huts were blown almost apart, while many lost their roofs completely. Bedding reeovered from the wrecked cottages prodded accomoodation for ths night in the Y.M.O.A. building. serious injuries were suffered, but several people . suffered ■ cuts and bruises from flying gravel, branches, and rooflng iraa. The Bewly-erected dental clinic wie mimofed end the overseers office vntil-tuned round and blown along until it was arrested by" the main office. Alt men capable of using carpenters' tools were engaged in repair work yest drafting aurveyor's offices Were unroofed and T|he wind and rain:.caused navoe among maps, plans and. papers, some of which were lost or' severely • damaged.