SEVERE GALE AND MUCH DAMAGE.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11995, 23 July 1907, Page 4

SEVERE GALE AND MUCH DAMAGE.

Westport, July 21. The heavy gale on Saturday did damage throughout the district. The Trotting Club's grandstand was unroofed. Oamaru, July 21. A north-east gale which set in early on Sunday morning is still blowing, and a heavy sea is still running. The Rakaia? which was expected early this morning, had not put in an apea ranee till mid-day, and cannot now enter port till midnight at the earliest. Te Aroba, July 2J. A gaie was raging here on Saturday night any Sunday. Fences and sheds are down everywhere. A young man named George Hickey, was sleeping in a cottage, which was blown away and smashed to pieces. He was badly bruised but no bones were boken. Johnson and Qwillian's shed containing six ; buggies was destroyed and all the vehicles were damaged. The river is high and railway communication is interrupted. At Paeroa a washout did about £500 of damage. v Auckland; July 22. The gale which raged here on Sunday did extensive damage to portions of the new ferro concrete Bailway Wharf. The sheathed piles have been torn out almost; completely, and the heavy top girder has also gone, The steel bars have been bent, and stripped of concrete. Altogether the training wall has been the part most affected. The boacon on the Maori rock in the North Channel at Kawau has been dislodged.