The “ADVOCATE” This Evening
- 111 Owing to the disruption in. telephonic and telegraphic communication between Whangarei and the rest of New Zealand, the “Northern Advocate” regrets that it has been unable to supply to its readers P its usual comprehensive service of cable and telegraphic news. g , Today’s news in the “Advocate” is confined mostly to stories of the floods which devastated the A North, but wireless reports indicate that other pdrts of the Dominion suffered match more severely, || New Plymouth was the centre of a tornado, and many roofs were flattened, Wellington also was swept || by a tremendous hurricane. H A wireless report stated that the damage at Palmerston North was equal to that left in the wake y|| of an earthquake. Houses were unroofed, and one man was said to have been blown off a roof and '|| fatally injured. H Reports from all other areas indicate widespread devastation. In Auckland the seas were so rough within the harbour that it was impossible to load boats on m Saturday, and many small craft were crushed at their moorings. P The Waitemata electric power service failed, and there was widespread dislocation of transport 8 services. w
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Northern Advocate, 3 February 1936, Page 5
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