FIERCE GALES
—. WORST FOR MANY YEARS. BY CABLE- PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received June 25, 11.30 a.m. SYDNEY, June 25. Reports from Southern States and the country districts show that the fiercest gale for many years was experienced on Monday night. Fences, electric poles, and buildings in the Woolongong district, and roofs were partly torn off many houses. The wireless, aerial of the steamer Benella, between Adelaide and Melbourne, was carried away by a ninety miles per hour hurricane, and vessels in Bass Strait suffered a severe buffeting.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CHURCH SPIRE - DAMAGED. (by TF.T/RGT? APTT PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 PALMERSTON N., June 25. The heavy gale yesterday stripped the sheet iron from the spire of Broad Street Methodist Church. As the iron came hurtling to the ground it narrowly missed a local resident attending to a motor cycle in the yard of a house adjoining the church property. The man beat’a hurried retreat to the washhouse, and the next minute iron was blown over the building. Other damage not of so serious a nature was alsodone by the storm.- The gale considerably abated to-d.iv.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HAWST19240625.2.76
Bibliographic details
Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 June 1924, Page 11
Word Count
182FIERCE GALES Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 June 1924, Page 11
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hawera Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in