TELEGRAPH LINES DOWN.
{IT TM.EGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ■;'"■*■'' ; This Day. " 'Thefe' was".an exceptionally heavy "gale last night; All the wires are down north of Otorohanga/ and communication TKrith ■Taranaki is cut somewhere ' near Awakino. The wind, which was of unusual severity, blew in a big plate glass window,and did other damage.
'&>lEho' Telegraph. Department advises :— ."Owing to stress of weather, the telegraph .traffic has been, and still is, severely dislocated in. both the North ; and South Islands. North of Hamilton, several poles are reported down, causing at one time a complete cut off from Auckland. In the South Island poles ■were also reported down both north and south of Kaikotira." '■'"Late this 'afternoon, the? Department •advised :—''Traffic for South Island now ,' -,
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 126, 28 May 1920, Page 8
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