SHIPPING DELAYED
GALE IN THE SOUTH DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Shipping companies report that the Kiwitea, which was due at Lyttelton at, noon to-day from Dunedin, wirelessed that she was delayed by storm, and was not arriving till 7 o’clock this evening. There is no news yet of tho Gale or the Storm, which are expected at Lyttelton to-day. A gale in the harbor delayed the berthing of the Maori and the Waimarino by half an hour. The motor ship Raugitata was blown against the Gladstone pier and leaned over so much that the superstructure damaged tho undercarriage of an electric crane, and a pile on the wharf was broken.
Officers of the Maori report that the gale at sea was exceptionally severe. At Sumner, the roof of a pumping station was blown off, and the brick wall of a building under construction was blown in. A workman at. Sumner was blown off his bicycle and had to he assisted home on account of injured hands. The weather improved later.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18067, 19 April 1933, Page 8
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