SHED BLOWN OVER HILL

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30286, 12 November 1963, Page 3

SHED BLOWN OVER HILL

Gale Damage In North (N.Z. Press Association) DANNEVIRKE. Nov. 10 , Gale force winds on Fri-i day smashed a concrete wail, i picked up a shed, built to! store 80 tons of bulk paper/ and carried it over a hill at I the Raumati farm of Mr Ken, Reisima. five miles trom Dan- ! nevirke. Mr Reisima’s father, Mr J. 1 B. Reisima said yesterday:' "Ken looked out a window of his house and saw the shed J standing there. When he' looked a few minutes later, the shed was nowhere to be seen. It had. in fact, been torn from its concrete base, picked up bodily, lifted over, the brow of a hill, and smash-; ed to pieces as it fell to earth.” Half the iron on a hay-! shed roof on the same pro- 1 perty was also torn off and! blown 400 to 500 yards across the paddocks. The Post and Telegraph Department reported that a I number of poles were broken ! off and on Saturday there were still 100 subscribers' i lines out of order. Power < board linemen were also kept busy. A large caravan was torn free of a car near Takapau; at 3 p.m. on Friday. After; rolling over several times, the j caravan crashed through a fence and was smashed to; matchwood. A truck towing a trailer] carrying a glider was blown I off the road near Dannevirke. I The glider was badly damaged.