Picton Badly Hit
IPer Press Association. Copyright.! BLENHEIM, This Day. The most serious results of Tuesday night’s storm, were felt at Picton, where twelve launches were wrenched from their, moorings in the harbour and thrown up on the foreshore, many being damaged. At the railway construction camp at Aniseed, on the south main trunk line, a number of workers’ cottages had their roofs blown oil, about 100 people having to spend the night in the Y.M.C.A. building. South of Blenheim, particularly about*Kekerangu, the Clarence Bridge and Aniseed, the wind reached gale force. Early in the afternoon telegraph polos were blown over between the Clarence Bridge and Kaikoura, practically severing inier-island communication. Not long after further poles were blown over at Kekerangu, bringing the lines down.
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Northern Advocate, 11 August 1938, Page 12
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