CAMP WRECKED
MILFORD SOUND STORM GALE HURLS TENTS ABOUT MANY ESCAPES FROM INJURY [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] INVERCARGILL, Thursday A violent north-westerly storm recently wrecked the No. 1 Public Works cam]) at Milford Sound, hut no one was injured. Thunder and lightning were accompanied hv a gale which plucked tents from the ground and dumped them hundreds of feet away. Trees were uprooted and sheets of iron hurtled through the air. Although 110 one was injured there were many narrow escapes. One workman was lying in bed with measles when an iron gable shorn from a lint some distance away was hurled against his tent. It struck one of the stout poles of the tent and the man was unscathed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23156, 30 September 1938, Page 10
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