ONERAHI NEWS

Northern Advocate, 24 May 1929, Page 2

ONERAHI NEWS

(From Our Own Correspondent.) PERSONAL. Miss A. Burch, of the Auckland Training College, arrived home on Saturday, t 6 spend her three weeks ’ midwinter vacation term among her own ! people. She is the guest of her parents j Mr and Mrs W. D, Burch'. After a very jolly week-end spent as the guest- of Mr and Mrs H. T. Handforth, Miss Barr, of Whangarei, left again on Monday, to resume business in the work-a-day w r orld. Miss D. -Lupton came down from « Whangarei on Tuesday to. put in a part of her vacation in the township. She is enjoying a very pleasant time as the guest of -Mr and Mrs H, T. Handforth. , Mrs M. J. Munro left on Thursday for Auckland, where she will put in a holiday visit among friends in the Metropolis. Mrs J. Matheson returned home on Sunday after a three-weeks holiday spent at Ngaruawhiti as the guest of Mr and Mrs W. Ritchie. Slips on the road to Kaikohe prevented the running of the service cars for a weely .but, except for the drawback of wild weather and heavy rains, a very jolly time j was spent. . I TRAIL 01? THE STORM. Since last week’s heavy gale, inclement weather has marked the passage of the days with almost continuous rain. Oner ah, i wears a sodden and : dishevelled and it is only since the weather has moderated that : one can appreciate the full loss caused by the storm. To put it at the lowest i

estimation, this will run, -up high into three figures. In addition to the damage already chronicled, the recurrence of the gale on the Monday completed the destruction of the jetty, whence the whofle of the decking has been carried away. The sea-wall along Beach Road is breached in several places by the battering of the seas, the roadway has been..undermined in places and the recently completed inetalling will' require re-spreading over large areas. The newly-formed Onerahi .Tamaterau Road has suffered considerably, the embankment being partially washed out in many spots, and the roadway heaped with seaweed, driftwood and; other flotsam. The bathing shed, blown down and scattered, is now a thing of the past. The rush of the wind up the valley snatched the verandah on the house of Mrs Scott senr., from its location and carried it bodily some distance up the hill. The big ventilator on the school was carried away and a concrete chimney at Mr Roberts’ residence was blown down. Trees that have withstood the winds of centuries have faillen victim to the fierce gusts. Several in the Steven’s Point reserve have! been blown down, and a big puriri standing at the foot of Mackenzie Avenue lies uprooted. During the height of the gale, a clever bit of salvage was done by Mr P. Mason aboard the Opaia. Mr A. Weir’s launch Winnie May, lifted from the repairing jchoeks, on the hard at Limestone by the swooshing tide, was drifting merrily before the wind when .Mr Mason caught sight of her and gave chase. The seas were running high, and rescuing launch and derelict were tossed like corks, in a mill race; and being aboard alone, the getting fast to the runaway was a ticklish job. It was cleverly accomplished at last, however, and the errant craft brought to safety.