DAMAGE IN HAWKE’S BAY
HASTINGS, Feb. 22. Considerable damage to fruit crops, •which are now at a critical stage of development, is expected to have resulted from a sudden storm which swept the province this afternoon, in exposed areas a high wind, accompanied by driving rain, buffeted heavily ladeif pear and apple trees, bringing large quantities of fruit to the ground. It is expected that branch rub also will spoil a lot of Delicious apples. Orohardists fear that the wet weather and high winds will cause heavy losses in late varieties of peaches.
A high southerly wind which started with a sudden gust in the early hours of the morning sent heavy rain squalls sweeping over Wellington yesterday. The velocity of the wind rose rapidly after 5.45 a.m. and gusts of 50 miles an hour were frequent. At Itongotai a gust of 71 miles an hour was recorded at 10.30 a.m. The strongest gust recorded at Kelburn was one of 61 miles an hour, recorded at the same time.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 73, 23 February 1945, Page 5
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169DAMAGE IN HAWKE’S BAY Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 73, 23 February 1945, Page 5
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