GALE’S HAVOC
N.S.W. RECORD STORM. (By Cable—Press Assn A-Copyright.) (Received February IS, 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, February 17. A gale of cyclone force, accompanied by torrential rain, swept the north coast of New- South Wales and the southern border of Queensland yesterday afternoon, and wrought havoc to houses, farms, public buildings, and churches in the Tweed River districts, Coolangatta, and the Hunter River Valley. Telegraphic communication was entirely cut off for twenty-four hours. A number of houses were blown off their foundations, iron roofs were carried 500 yards, wooden churches were wrecked and fences levelled in the Munwillumbah district, where rain fell in sheets, upwards of seven inches in a few hours. All the rivers, as far south as Kemsey, are rising so rapidly that danger of flooding is imminent. The wind reached a velocity of 80 miles an hour. Residents described the storm as the worst for 50 years. No lives are reported lost. The storm has moved towards New Zealand.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 February 1930, Page 3
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