GALE IN THE SOUTH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 101, 29 April 1912, Page 8

GALE IN THE SOUTH.

BUILDING BEING KUECTED BLOWN DOWN. pS* tELKGHAPH- -PUKSS ASSOCIATION.! CHIIISTCHURUH, This Day. In tho gale yesterday morning"' a store in course of erection in Dryden-street, Addington, for tho International Harvester Company, was wrecked. Tho beams for the roof had ju»t been completed, and tho whole crashed down, splintering the heuvy timber. Tho top side brick v\ all \sab damaged, and tho real* brick wayy full back on the res>irear brick wall fell back on the residence of Mr. John Caughley, head master of the West Christchurch bdiool, completely wrecking part of the house. The occupants were away at church, and no one was -injured. Mr. J<\ E. Shaw, "builder of *lhe store, bays the building was thoroughly secured on Saturday. HEAVY SNOWFALL. 11311 131 TELEUItAPH — fUIiSS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, This Day. The Clyde correspondent of the Dunodiri Star repbrtb a heavy fall of snow in tho back country for two days. Great loss of she op h "feared. MORE STORMY WEATHER PROBABLE The westerly winds which rose to..tho force of a_hea>y gaio on Saturday night, after a brief spell on Sunday morning gave way to a biting southerly, accompanied by drifting rain squalls and sleet. Snow fell hoavily on the ranges in the south. On Saturday, also, much enow fell, and most parts of tho Mackou/ie County were deeply covered. During tho early hours of this morning the wind dropped and a pleasant change took place in the weathdr. This, however, according to the Dominion Metoorologiiil, is not to bo trusted for long. Westerly winds are again likoly to give place to increasing eoutherlies and changuable weather is forecasted, with heavy showers in many parts, and snow on higher levels in the South. A temporary fall in the barometer in tho South testifies to the existence of a famall webterly low pressure, which has for a time neutralised the southerly storm, of which yesterclay'b blizzard was a part. Vory heavy seas are pfobrfb-lo on a U the western coasts and in the Straits.