THE RECENT GALE
DAMAGE AT PAHIATUA
(BY TELEWRAPH.—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) PAHIATUA, June 17. Yesterday's gale was the severest felt in Patviatpa for many years. Considerable damage was done, several large plate glass windows in the main street being blown in and fences blown down. At Mangaitonika the roof of the Dudley Arms Hotel was lifted bodily from tho liuilding. It was carried across the road and came jn contact with the telegraph wires about 40 yards distant, breaking eight wires. The portion pf the roof carried away comprised twenty? ty/o sheets of ten-foot iron and a large number of rafters, DAMAGE Jfif MARLBOROUGH: BLENHEIM, This Day—Floods in the Pelorus river caused damage to rivers and a slight loss of stock. The schooner Falcon and the scow Eunice, moored at the Blackball wharf, broke away and collided, but very little b.aym was done. It ■will probably take a fortnight to repair the bridges.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 June 1912, Page 3
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152THE RECENT GALE Greymouth Evening Star, 18 June 1912, Page 3
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