NELSON BUILDINGS DAMAGED BY TORNADO

Grey River Argus, 18 August 1949, Page 5

NELSON BUILDINGS DAMAGED BY TORNADO

NELSON, Aug. 17 A tornado, of minor intensity, passed across the eastern part of Nelson at 10.5 this morning, causing some damage to buildings and several breaks in electric wires, power being off in parts of the town during the morning. A house at the corner of Manuka and Tasman Streets, owned by Mr W. T. Simvson, had one-third of the roof blown off and the chimney blown over. Several commercial glasshouses had a number of sheets of glass pulled out. The most spectacular part of the storm was when it travelled along a row of fowlhouses and sheds behind dwellings in Milton Street, where residents saw parts of buildings, fowls, and broken glass from a small backyard glasshouse flying through the air. A number of windows were blown out. Wireless poles are down and one large tree in the grounds of the Government buildings was uprooted. The track of the tornado was only about 30 feet wide and it passed a given point in a few seconds. No one was injured.