Trees, roofs, fruit go

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33791, 13 March 1975, Page 1

Trees, roofs, fruit go

During the height of the storm that swept Nelson yesterday, extensive damage was caused to property in the central city area and the suburb of Stoke.

Limbs were ripped from trees, sheet iron sucked from the roofs of houses and many thousands of bushels of apples approaching maturity, thrown to the ground.

“The Press” staff correspondent in Nelson, Barry Simpson, was out with his camera.

One trunk of a threetrunk tree in the comer of a property owned by a Christian community in Nelson, and known throughout New Zealand as “144 Collingwood Street,” crashed across the front lawn (right). Three glasshouses each 190 ft long and with a replacement value of about $lOO,OOO owned by Mr G. Albano, Brook Street, were flattened (far right).

The main entrance to Nelson Public Hospital was closed after tiles were whipped from the roof. Making temporary repairs (bottom right) is a hospital employee.

An estimated 10.000 cases of fruit on the Stoke orchard of Robinson Bros, was lost and other orchardists in the area suffered just as severely. Mr Bob Robinson (below) displays some of the fruit almost at maturity which will now rot on the ground. Other Nelson storm damage pictures are on page 22 and Greymouth pictures •re on page 2. *