TARANAKI “CYCLONE”
DAMAGE TO PREMISES. [FEB PBEOB ASSOCIATION.] HAWERA, May 16. Shortly after six o’clock last evening, residents of Ohawe Beach Settle,ment experienced the effects of a minor cyclone, which swept inland on a narrow path from the sea, accompanied by torrential rain. The residence of A. H. Mulligan was completely unroofed, sheets of iron being carried a distance of 20 yards. The next building in the path of the storm, an iron shed on the property of R. Bray, was demolished. An unoccupied cottage also had the roof lifted. Several tanks were blown down and garages , shifted off their foundations. A. section of a box-thorn hedge is reported to have been lifted bodily out of the ground.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 May 1934, Page 7
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118TARANAKI “CYCLONE” Greymouth Evening Star, 16 May 1934, Page 7
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