VIOLENT GALES –

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 232, 27 June 1932, Page 9

VIOLENT GALES -

Damage in Australia ROUGH IN TASMAN SEA Sydney, June 25. The fierce westerly gales which have been experienced over a wide area covering Tasmania, Victoria, and the coastal and highland areas of New South Wales have caused considerable damage. At a number of places on the South Coast dozens of houses and garages were unroofed and plate-glass windows blown in. Terrific gusts blew down the wall of the Primary Distributing Society’s store and destroyed the aerial masts of the Wollongong Broadcasting Station, 2WL. The wake of the raging wind was strewn with wreckage of every description. Particularly extensive damage was done in farming districts. Hundreds of fences were blown down and miscellaneous articles scattered about willy-nilly. A man was blown from a ladder and injured. In a special warning to shipping the Weather Bureau forecasts strong gales and rough seas over the Tasman Sea.