UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11187, 18 April 1922, Page 5

UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE

CYCLONE AT TARANAKI CONSTERNATION AMONG VISITORS TO EGMONT. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE. PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION. NEW PLYMOUTH, April 17. Consternation prevailed oil the New Plymouth side of Mount Egmont today, the cause being a small cyclone which swept down the mountain-side, striking the new mountain house in its wild career, lifting the roof of iron, and doing considerable damage to the verandah. PICTURES AND CROCKERY SUFFER, : As to-day was Easter Monday, there was a large number of visitors to tlio mountain, and dinner preparations were almost completed when the crash came. Crockery and pictures suffered considerably, and the house was bombarded with gravel, whirled inside by the storm. A motor-car which wa» parked ear the house was caught by the wind-storm, iifted over a bank nearby, and deposited upside down in the cully below. Fortunately, it sustained littlo damage, and was later recovered. LADIES HAVE NARROW ESCAPE. No one was injured, but three ladies who were sitting by a bank had a narrow escape, a sheet of roof-iron, tossed by the wind, whirling past in dangerous proximity to them.