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/UNITED PbESS AS3OCIATION.) WELLINGTON". Nov. 2., The gale which raged over "Wellington vesterday reached its •maximum a little"before, midnight, when the wind attained a. velocity at times of sixty miles an hour. A good deal of damage was done. Fences were'blown down, electric light and telephone wires disorganised, and in some cases iron was lilted off the roofs. Shipping anchored in the stream £>ofc well 1 tossed about, but all came through unscathed, except the schooner Falcon, which dragged her anchors and drifted isorr-e distance til.; brought up near one of the coal hulks. Some small coastal steamers wore reported to have -sought shelter at various points along Cook Strait coasts from the furv of the wind, which swept through the" Strait. The telegraph office reports a good deal of interruption to lines north and south. _____
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 3 November 1914, Page 2
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