VICIOUS WIND
SLEEP DISTURBED
SOME STRONG GUSTS
MINOR DAMAGE DONE
A strong and viciously gusty northwesterly wind was experienced in Wellington overnight, and there must have been many whose sleep was disturbed. There were some very heavy gusts that shook two-storey houses in exposed parts of some of the suburbs. The strongest gust recorded at Kelburn Observatory was one of 71 miles an hour, which occurred about 6.15 a.m.
Gardens were buffeted in a number of suburbs, and in addition, in the more elevated parts of the suburbs, wireless masts and aerials were torn down. The wind was also most capricious. For instance, twice in the I early hours of the morning it succeeded "in drawing out a milk billy from a small box in a comparatively sheltered part of a Kelburn garden and depositing it with noisy effect along the path. Over many years, the owner stated today, this was something that had not happened previously.
A number of branches were torn off trees in the Botanical Gardens. Flower beds also suffered, in some cases beds being almost completely cleaned out.
Other minor damage also has been reported. This includes some broken windows in houses in the suburbs.
The wind was not felt at the city motor camp at Miramar. The high manuka-clad hills above the camp site shelter it from the north-westerlies. •
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 36, 12 February 1940, Page 8
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224VICIOUS WIND Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 36, 12 February 1940, Page 8
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