TORNADO AT WAITARA

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27735, 12 August 1955, Page 8

TORNADO AT WAITARA

MOUSES DAMAGED (New Zealand Press Association) NEW , PLYMOUTH, August 10. Several persons had narrow escapes when a tornado roared across Waitara East from the sea about 4.10 a.m. today. It smashed two car sheds, levelled fences, wrecked the wall of a building. broke tiles, and lifted roofing. The tornado swept across Hutchins, Harris, Richmond, and Mace streets in a line curving away to the southeast, and expended itself about two miles inland. Mr and Mrs J. Crow and their baby, in Richmond street, had the luckiest escape. A piece of timber about 12ft long was picked up from a joinery factory opposite ana hurled across the road through a front window of their house into their bedroom. The timber hit a wall behind Mr and Mrs Crow’s bed before falling across the bed in a shower of broken glass. Mr and Mrs E. Williams, in Mace street were awakened by the roar of the wind before timber and iron torn from a shed hit their house. The tornado flattened fences in Hutchins street and badly damaged a wall of the joinery factory.