MOTORISTS' NARROW ESCAPE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 13 November 1928, Page 6

MOTORISTS' NARROW ESCAPE

ROOF BLOWN OVER CAR (By Telegraph—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. One of the worst storms experienced in Christchurch for many years caught many people unprepared for such, a visitation on Sunday afternoon. In the afternoon the weather was still warm and summer clothing was much in evidence. x\bout 4.25 p.m. the wind dropped and the sky became overcast, while a heavy bank of clouds could be seen in the south-west. Suddenly a gale burst xipon the city. The wind was so strong that pedestrians were scarcely able to walk against it, while cycling against it was impossible. When the galvanised iron roof of a hen-house in Riccarton w;as lifted off and hurled across the. road, a party of motorists over the top of whose car the roof was blown had a narrow: escape. In the country districts the storm was very violent. North Canterbury suffered considerably. Trees were blown down and the electric power in the Fernside and Flaxton districts was off till a late hour. It is feared the hail and sleet which accompanied the heavy wind at different places may have caused loss among newly-shorn sheep.