WINTRY STORM

Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1932, Page 5

WINTRY STORM

ABATES IN BRITAIN. MUCH DAMAGE BY FLOOD. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, .January 7. The spell of tempestuous weather, during which there weie gu.-.ts of wind of 82 miles an hour registeied at Falmouth, moderated last night. The vessels which had sought shelter were able to resume their voyages. The skies were clear, with a gentle breeze, and a slight sea this morning. The cruisers, Norfolk, '.Dorsetshire, and Exeter left Plymouth to day for the West Indies, and any further postponement of the spring cruise of the Atlantic Fleet became unnecessary.

Although many vessels were temporarily disabled in the English Channel during the stonn, adequate assistance was forthcoming in all cases. The battleship “Royal Sovereign” and the cruiser “Exeter/ together with Plymouth lifeboats, for some hours stood by a steamer which had lost its propeller near Eddystone Lighthouse. They were recalled when the storms ceased. When the liner Raj nil tana from India arrived at Plymouth, Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd George, who was a passenger, said that they had had “a pretty good dusting” during the storm, but the passengers escaped without injury, Otherwise it had been a delightful Voyage,

Much damage was done by floods yesterday, In many areas the roads were submerged, and rivers overflowed their banks partieluarly ■in NorthWestern England. An extensive landslide occurred on the Slieffield-Manehester Road over the Pennincs. In South Wales many farms were isolated owing to floods and the railway traffic in some centres were interrupted.