Trees Uprooted In Canterbury
[Per Press Association. Copyright’.] ASHBURTON, This Day. Thousands of trees are down in the county, .and in the council’s plantation on an area beside the main south road at Dromore 150 trees went down. The power board’s staff had an unenviable time working late into the night in an endeavour to rectify the damage. The work was hampered by the fact that the telephone lines were also down, and the office lost contact with its gangs, which had to rove about; the country finding broken wires and repairing them as they went.
Motorists had dangerous journeys, some narrowly missing being crushed by falling trees, while one man was penned between two trees that fell in front and behind him. A cowshed at Staveley, was, blown away, and actually hung on top of a power pole.
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Northern Advocate, 11 August 1938, Page 12
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139Trees Uprooted In Canterbury Northern Advocate, 11 August 1938, Page 12
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