ONERAHI

Northern Advocate, 7 February 1936, Page 9

ONERAHI

GALE AND RAIN.

It was a wild hurly burly when Friday’s gale broke over Onerahi. The wind came away from the north-east in shrieking gusts that swept across the plateau in a frenzy. Wind-driven, lashing rain rattled on roof and weatherboards, and it was an extra good domicile that did not spring a leak 10 the strainnig of the wind. Branches were stripped from trees and many uprooted bodily. A large macrocarpa standing on the roadline in Mr Ogier’s garden, crashed to a sudden gust, demolishing a wide section of picketfence in its fall and tearing a six-foot cavern in the asphalt footpath, where it was uprooted. The heavy downpour caused several minor slips on the foreshore road, and along the disused railway line, but no material damage is reported. A wild sea '.was set running up channel, and dashing against the seawall, but the stout masonry | withstood the shock unharmed. Personal. 1 Mrs J. Mathieson. of Waipu. after a very pleasant fortnight’s visit as the | guest of Mrs and Mr F. Stewart, left j again for hpme on Thursday. A pop- j ular former resident, she had many friends to look up. and was kept busy j during her stay. Mrs McLean and family, also guests i at the same hospitable house, left for j their home in Auckland on Saturday, j What with swimming and boating, a [ very jolly fortnight was spent. ■