TERRIFIC STORM.
DAMAGE DONE IN AUSTRALIA. PERTH, Jan. 1. A willy-nilly, or cyclonic storm, struck Marblo Bar on Saturday night, damaging tho police station, post ofhee, courthouse and Residency. The wind reached a velocity of 800 miles an hour. The gale continued on Monday in the Nullaguie district, with a rainfall reaching nearly six inches in some plnces. The telegraph lines to Wyndham aro dislocated, messages having to go via Adelaide and Darwin with radio filling the gap between the latter town and Wyndham.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 27, 2 January 1931, Page 7
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84TERRIFIC STORM. Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 27, 2 January 1931, Page 7
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