WIND-SWEPT VALLEY
FENCES BLOWN DOWN SILT INVADES HOUSES ESK SETTLERS' ORDEAL [BT TELEGRAPH OWN CORRESPONDENT] NAPIER. Friday Settlers in Esk Valley, who suffered so severely from a flood a year ago last April, again underwent discomfort from the elements to-day by reason of a high wind blowing down the valley. The wind sent loose silt remaining from the flood whirling through the valley and out to sea. Fences have been blown - down and newly-sown pastures destroyed, and houses are once more receiving a coating of silt inside and out. In the stronger gusts it was difficult to stand against the wind, and at one stage telephone lines were threatened.- The gale, however, was not as severe as that experienced in the valley a few months after the flood of last year.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23411, 29 July 1939, Page 12
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