“Terrible Hurricane.”
That celebrated underrated entrepreneur, Mr Vincent Crummies, was always wondering how “things got into the papers.” Many in New Zealand will share in his mystification when they read an account of “a terrible hurricane” that happened in the imagination of a writer in the well-known London “Sphere.” In that paper of October 13 last it. was stated: —“A terrible hurricane devastated the southern part of the North Island of New Zealand at the moment when Lord Bledisloe’s successor as Gover-nor-General was , announced. Lord Bledisloe’s term of office expires next March, having been extended to cover the Duke of Gloucester’s visit, which may be somewhat curtailed by the disaster.” It is common knowledge that the Governor-General in Council has extensive and various powers, but control of the winds and the waves is not one of them.
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Franklin Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 140, 5 December 1934, Page 5
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