REEFTON NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 December 1926, Page 2

REEFTON NOTES

(Our Own Correspondent.) REEFTON, December 2. The Grey Road and Lower Broadway were visited by a whirlwind shortly after mid-day on Thursday, which fortunately did not do a great deal of damage. It came from the south, and after travelling along the Grey Road and picking up a lot of dust it carie into Lower Broadway at the Police Station and levelled half a chain of fencing. Passing over Shiels Street, the wind lifted a sheet of iron fr nn Mr Jno. Barnett’s front verandah, flattened the back fence and took away part of the roof of the washhouse. The force of the wind was spent by the timer it reached the Boiler Road and no further damage resulted. Mr Brett, of Christchurch, who has been engaged for the past fortnight repairing the organ at St. Stephen’s Church, left for the East Coast on Thursday morning. The organ is now almost as good as new. Reefton School of Mines records for November show 16.82 inches in 18 days with rain. Maximum fall 2.23 inches on 4th. Total to date 79.585 inches in 122 days with rain (33.4 per cent). A very wet and cold month. From October 27 to November 6 9.58 inches in 11 days with rain; from 12th to 19th, 8.33 inches in 8 days with rain, with cold snowy weather; heavy falls of snow on Southern Alps and Paparoa Ranges, terminating with an- : other fall 26th, 27th; conditions very similar to those prevailing in November, 1925, when the rainfall, however, was 6.33 inches only in 18 days with rain, and the total 62.93 inches in 144 . days with rain. The average Novem- < ber and the average total figures bas- ; ed on an .eighteen-year period from < 1907 to 1924 were 6.848 inches in 15 ’ days and 69.447 inches in 156 days, in ’ contrast with the latter this year s shows an excess of 10.138 inches in excess of that total. < — - <