MINIATURE CYCLONE
SPECTACLE AT AUCKLAND NO SERIOUS : DAMAGE (Per Press Association.) • •• •■• AUCKLAND, this day. After a day of sultry and enfirifcaititfg weather, the north-east wind suddenly veered to .tlve’:s&uth eaifly. .tins SV&Mg, and while heavy and scattered, gh,QWe.rs were falling ;n the city and-joßttb df the suburbs, residents of Mission Bay, Kohimarama and St. Helier’s Bay witnessed the exciting spectacle of a_ -miniature cyclone whipping the sea into suume and tossing dinghies about like corks. Sheets of spray 20ft. in height were flung upward from the surface-of the sea as the whirlwind drove /along: its path and left in its wake a broiling stretch of water in. which dinghies, .were tossed wildly and launches and yachts strained at their moorings. A. rowing boat was picked up like a toy‘and turned over. •....... . >’ As it approached St. Helier’s. Bay .the intensity of the disturbance increased. No serious damage was. caused,. to pleasure craft.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18583, 18 December 1934, Page 9
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151MINIATURE CYCLONE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18583, 18 December 1934, Page 9
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