TELEGRAMS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 2774, 24 July 1907, Page 5

TELEGRAMS

<By Electric Telegraph).

HEAVY GALES

Electric Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, July 22. The "lakapuna, which was due at Unehunga from New Plymouth yes- | terday morning, did not arrive until 7 o'clock to-day. .-she left New Ply- t mouth at liin.- on Saturday night, 1 L .t heavy weather and fog obscured v •• land, which was picked up yes- j tciday afternoon. Manakau bar was 1 crossed at four o'clock, and the steam- I >-r anchored at the heads till this 1 n. wiling owing to the thick weather. I The rainfall for the twenty-four L urs ending at 9.30 a.m. yesterday | 1.-5 inches, and from then till 9.30 thi- morning an additional .94 I was registered, making a total of | 2.79 inches in forty-eight hours. The : windage was only heavy for twenty- j Jour hours ending at S o’clock yes- i Tcrdu v me ruing, when 804 miles were registered by anemometer. Westport, July 22. A heavy gale on Saturday caused j damage throughout the district. The Trotting Club’s grandstand was un-

rooted. DAMAGE TO A PCKLAND WHARVES. Auckland, .July 22. j The gale on Sunday caused. ex- j tensive damage to portions of the new t.-rro-e wicrete railway wharf. Ihe part affected most is the training wall, the shea tiled piles of which ex- j tend the whole length of the wharf tor the purpose of turning the tide | and making still water inside. About I a dozen bays in the middle of tiro • v all have been torn out almost com- j pletel.y. a few isolated piles being j Vi-ible here and there with jagged • ■nds of st el reinlni cement sticking I •out of the top. Tin heavy girder lias also gone in ( these bays, with the exception of •in: small portions hanging to the n,p of isolated piles, the steel bars forming the reinforcement stretching bent and stripped .'it concrete across the intervening space. Passing further out towards the . ml of the wharf the wall still stands, though daylight can be seen glimmering between the piles in several places. Cuming to the place where work lias been progressing, the ravages of the storm are even more apparent. At thr north-eastern corner a clump ot pile- ban been driven, and the-.- nave been forced in.