GALE AT AUCKLAND
SEVENTY MILES AN HOUR. DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. Oct. 25. A gale, of exceptional severity swept Auckland this morning. Squalls readied the velocity of 70 miles an hour. A big petrol tank, party built, collapsed; it was secured by steel wires, but the bplts fastening the thick iron plates were torn out and the huge cylinder gave way. A large portion of the roof was torn off a motor-body building works and a portion oh the roof, measuring 60 feet bv 40 overhung the footpath. It broke telegraph wires and fused a power cable. In the harbour the auxiliary sc-hooner, Piri, dragged her anchor until the harbour tug towed her to a wharf. Much damage was occasioned to gardens and orchards, particularly tomato plants.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 25 October 1930, Page 7
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130GALE AT AUCKLAND Hawera Star, Volume L, 25 October 1930, Page 7
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