THE WELLINGTON WIND
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 3.
A Wellington married couple were wakened by a crash about 1.15 a.m. today and found an extra roof on their house in Hankey street.
The unplanned addition measuring about 90ft by 30ft, was lifted off a factory 80ft away by a gale-force gust.
Mrs F. Blake said she was still shaking today as workmen began removing the tangle of galvanised iron and cross beams draped across the front of the house.
The interior of the donor factory, the Isolex Manufacturing Co. Ltd., was a dismal sight. The wind lifted more than half the total area of the factory roof from its mountings and carried it over one house before dumping it across the Blakes’s house.
A piece of the debris smashed through the roof of the first house. The picture shows the scene in Hankey street this morning. The factory from which the roof was blown is at the far left.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31412, 4 July 1967, Page 26
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160THE WELLINGTON WIND Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31412, 4 July 1967, Page 26
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