FIERCE EASTERLY GALE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18974, 26 March 1936, Page 15

FIERCE EASTERLY GALE

AUCKLAND HARBOUR FURY WAVES SWEEP HIGHWAY SHOP PREMISES INVADED (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. An easterly gale, last night and early this morning caused extensive damage on the waterfront. Newspaper and radio warnings enabled the owners of boats to take overnight precautions, thus avoiding wreckage on the extensive scale of the February storm. At daylight 'this morning a howling easterly 'was lashing the harbour, anil by high tide, at approximately 10 (/clock, heavy waves of a record size were pounding the. beaches and breaking over the waterfront road and submerging the Parnell baths and testing the strength of reclamations. Two small sailing boats, approximately 14-footers, were driven ashore near the Akarana Yacht Club shed, Point Resolution, one being pounded to matchwood on the rocks. The other was submerged, apparently badly damaged. At Kohimaramara, the water invaded a block of shops to a depth of 2ft.. the stock having to be removed. Beaches facing the Rangitoto Channel and the Hauraki Gulf were right in the track of the storm and considerable damage is reported, especially at Mil ford, where a retaining wall was carried away and many lawns of private houses were damaged! by erosion.

A Dargaville message says that, a violent easterly gale experienced there blew itself out during the night. It did some damage to gardens. Victoria street was under water, and a large quantity of driftwood was deposited amongst flower beds.