HUGE CYCLONE
NEW CALEDONIA VISITATION.
Australian Press Association.)
SYDNEY, April 19
A terrific cyclone which passed over New Caledonia recently, wrought extensive damage, according to a wireless message from the Oronsay, which arrived at Noumea on a pleasure cruise. The message said that desolation was everywhere. Small ships w'ere carried high and dry by* huge seas. Numerous buildings were blown down, crops and trees were razed to the ground, and the water system was dislocated.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1933, Page 5
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