THE WEATHER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 31, 21 September 1911, Page 5

THE WEATHER.

1 GALE IN WELLINGTON. LYALL BAY BEACH DEVASTATED (Per Press Association.) Wellington, September 20. It is still blowing hard and raining to-night, and the weather is very cold. The force of the gale was felt very keenly at Lyall Bay, where the breakers have rushed in with tremendous force. On Tuesday night the water readied the termination of the tramway lino, and undermined the foundations of many buildings on the beach. The men’s dressing shed, thirty feet long, was almost completely swept away, and the almost completed club house of tho Lyall Bay Surf Club, forty feet long, had disappeared. A raised stand on the beach had gone and left no trace. A shod of tho Wellington Chair Company had fared badly, but still stood. The beach is strewn to-day with debris and wreckage of every description. The breakers rushed sborowards at express speed, their boiling crests ten feet above tho sand. Almost everything moveable has disappeared, a clean sweep having been made of the beach. The few buildings remaining seem doomed. The sides of the sandhills are covered with lifebuoys, seats with, legs and backs broken, notices to bathers, life-saving reels, chairs, boxes which had been hastily moved out of roach of the sea, and the concrete foundations of tho dressing-shod, broken into pieces ten feet long, and about half a ton weight.