GUSTS AT 76 M.P.H.

Evening Star, Issue 23292, 14 June 1939, Page 1

GUSTS AT 76 M.P.H.

BUT AIRWAYS RUN TO SCHEDULE [Per. United Press Association.] ' WELLINGTON, June' 13. To-day Wellington experienced its bleakest day this winter. The cold southerly wind of yesterday increased to gale force during the night, and at daybreak the city and suburbs were being swept by a fierce wind, which brought low temperatures and frequent squalls of wind and rain. The gale reached its maximum velocity about noon, when the wind at the Bongotai Aerodrome was blowing in gusts of 7(5 miles an hour.

In spite of the wind and driving squalls, the Union Airways Lockheed Electra planes operating between Wellington and Auckland and between Wellington and Dunedin were able to keep to schedule. Conditions were very unfavourable in the Cook Strait area,' and though _ the air liners made the scheduled flights between Wellington and Blenheim and Nelson in the morning, Cook Strait Airways’ afternoon services were cancelled. Throughout the day : the ’ wind wan seldom below 35 to 40 miles an hour, and during the afternoon there were frequent gusts of 60 miles an hour.