A SEVERE GALE
IN OAMARU DISTRICT.
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association) OAMARU, July 17. At 5.50 this morning the Oamarit district experienced a severe gale, almost of cyclone force and lasted only five minutes, but sufficient to ■do enough damage to make clear that it would have been serious had it lasted much longer. It began with a thunderclap and vivid lightning flash. Several houses had the tiles blown off and electric wires in some places were blown down. The root 1 of ia garage crashed on the a'house at Waireka and took away half the roof of the house and strewed the wreckage over a paddock. A tree, which was a feature of the seventeenth hole on the golf links, was blown down. No other details of damage are yet pvailable, , . v
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1931, Page 5
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132A SEVERE GALE Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1931, Page 5
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