BOISTEROUS WEATHER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 251, 20 September 1933, Page 6

BOISTEROUS WEATHER.

SQUALLY WESTERLY WIND. TEMPORARY POWER FAILURE. Typical equinoctial weather has prevailed in Palmerston North and district this week, with conditions variable and boisterous. There was a change for the worse yesterday afternoon, and during the 24 hours ended at 9 a.m. to-day a rainfall of 37 points was recorded by Mr T. R. Moore, of “Waimarania,” Terrace End. During the night the Manawatu River rose rapidly and had reached a level of 6ft. at 6 a.m. to-day, but was falling steadily this morning and had subsided lft in height by noon. Shortly before midnight, last night, a strong westerly wind sprang up and at times it blew in furious gusts. There were squally conditions to-day and the wind appeared to have increased in force to the 1 strength of a gale. Nevertheless, the temperature was unusually high, being 60 degrees at 9 a.m., and the weather was humid indoors.

Part of the city area experienced an interruption in the power supply at 7.30 p.m. yesterday. Owing to a fault developing in an insulator, a high tension wire fell on to a cross-arm in Carroll Street and burned it through. Meanwhile the power load was temporarily thrown on to the other city substation, and until the trouble was remedied there was merely a glimmer of light in the affected locality.