DISASTROUS STORM.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Feh. 18.
The secretary of the Telegraph Departmnit Ims ncoivecl word from the wireless station at K'aratonga that wireless reports from Papeete state that a terrible Immeaiio passed over Makalea on JanuatjZZ. Many lives were lost aim Mr Martini,, Director of. the Phosphate C ompany d,sno details oUl;.ini:bl.'. Tlia ll.il ■™l ol , t! "j hurricane hit Raratonga. Hie wind leached the velocity of between 50 and 6i, miles m hour, hut very little damage' was none there. The sea was very heavy ...ml tin spray at the station was nice a raging nnsl.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1744, 19 February 1920, Page 5
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