OVERNIGHT STORM

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20649, 27 December 1941, Page 4

OVERNIGHT STORM

NO DAMAGE TO LINES ONE INCH OF RAIN With intervals of heavy rain, a squally wind beat upon Gisborne and the surrounding district throughout last night, and did minor damage to trees and farm outbuildings here and there. Sheets of iron were lifted from barn roofs, and empty corncribs took a new slant in some parts of the district, but on the whole the damage done was slight. The Poverty Bay Electric-Power Board received reports of consumers’ service lines being down or entangled on a few properties, but there was no interruption of service on the main power lines, and the few cases in which trouble was experienced were remedied in short order. Telegraph lines connecting Gisborne with the main centres were troublefree up to 10 a.m. to-day, and traffic was proceeding normally, but minor difficulty had developed bn the lines to the East Coast.

The barometer fell to a low point yesterday, and was down as far as 28.95 in., but has risen slightly since then. The rainfall during the night was not heavy after the first downpour, but continued this morning between heavy gusts of wind. At the Darton Field meteorological station, the recording was 1.1 in., bringing the total since Christmas Eve up to 1.21 in., and the total for the month to date to 1.87 in. The December average is 2.29 in.