STORM IN WELLINGTON

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17871, 30 August 1932, Page 5

STORM IN WELLINGTON

66-MILE-AN-HOUR WINDGUST SOME MINOR FLOODING Heavy, unremitting rain and a multitude of expansive puddles and rninci floods made Wellington a dismal place on Sunday for those who ventured into the. city, says the Dominion. Rain fell steadily throughout the day, and the streets, shops, and houses in the city and suburbs were bathed in dull, wintry light and an extreme wetness. It was a continuation of the rain which began to fall late on Saturday afternoon, and although Saturday night was boisterous, with a north-westerly wind that occasionally blew a 60-mile-an-hour gale, the wind changed on Sundav to a less forceful southerly, which lashed the rain gustily against windows and roofs. At the foot of Adelaide road, near the Basin Reserve, the road was completely flooded, and the water on the footpath was lapping against the hotel on the corner. Cars were moving cautiously. Tho Basin Reserve itself had extensive pools covering it, and seagulls spent the whole day there. Other flooding occurred at Miramar, and in the grounds of certain houses, as, for instance, in Dufferin street, where clay-impregnated water, was flowing out of the front gates into the road. This occurred in the city also, and water on Sunday morning was flowing out under the front door of a shop in Lambton quay which backs on to The Ten-ace.

Several windows were blown in by the force of Saturday night’s wind, and a wooden sign in Lambton quay, was dislodged. On tiie Hataitai side of Mount Victoria, toward Roseneath, tho gale ou Saturday night was felt severely. Two sheets of new corrugated iron, which looked as if they had been/torn from the roof of some structure, lay on the Town Belt, and one resident had a window blown in and some fencing levelled. Several wireless aerials were also damaged. A woman who was walking round from Oriental Bay late on Saturday afternoon was blown down when she reached the aptly-named “Windy Point.” She fell heavily, injuring her knee.

The heaviest gust of wind registered at Kelbum occurred at about 1.40 a.m. on Sunday, when the velocity reached 66 miles an hour.