SATURDAY'S GALE

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17437, 24 April 1922, Page 6

SATURDAY'S GALE

~*—■—■■ ■ ■.■*§• EXPEDIENCE AT SUM^f!

The weather on Saturday unpleasant change from thai ;: M enced during the Easter strong north-westerly wind part of the day made conditionifoi side activities by no meani ifag the southerly gale which BupetreWJ about 4.30 o'clock almost put ( J to them altogether. The cha&pjj wind came about with gMat'guf ness, and everywhere could h people hurrying for shelter. ,Uj2 rain and the wind lasted for »'«& able time, but finally the sky dri and the remainder of the siA? line, though very cold. -*■ i During the gale Sumner |jjjj cliff a were struck by terrifioMf quite unusual violence. MotSi perienced difficulty in rounding the exposed corners, while t\. Leonard's square, where the Ml* ball match of the season wir je played, it looked at one time itffl some of the big pine trees.wnldl uprooted. The force of the wifld. hj» ever, seemed to be worst 6itiito;s posed Shag Hock corner, where thsiijj Sumner reservoir is situated, rtO height of about 160 ft. A short .li ago this was roofed with fialfgnU iron. The fury of Saturday's jj apparently lifted, this heavy cove] from the south-west side, and t| it above the reservoir; the lower,| crumpled up and fell into the mi while the rest, with its neavstiml was carried bodily into the air Mi posited some thirty _f<>9t upbilltjii it fell and became impaled on jj and standard fence. This ..proi saved a further disaster, carried a few feet further,'it;K have floated over the clis,.r6uii4» at the time, a city car Was tranp Two motor-cars which tering round the seaward ;sjdefj& Bhag Rock corner also had Em escape. The roof was in diameter, and must several tons. In the a quarter of it lies overtsflp|*l other portion also in thesß|riM ,pears to be right side up|§i§Mjil naif lies astride the feneeglos'4|j|l side, one ;>art in the tion, the rest in. Sir -Jow||Jsij| property adjoining. The'.'iji%iM within a few feet of the/fflssi|| unscathed.. This is the first'6fflrt*| cident which the borough -hiwfjljl enoed to its power plant sinsJ|*j fortunate explosion at thf|JW!f] station about six years ago;