STORM AT TE AROHA.
HOUSE AND OCCUPANT BLOWN
AWAY.
TE AROHA, July 22.
A gale was raging here on Saturday night and Sunday. Fences and sheds aro down everywhere. A young 'man named George Hickey was sleeping in a cottage on the rise which was blown away and smashed to pieces. The man was badly bruised, but no bones were broken.
Messrs Johnson «Sr Guilliam's shed containing 3ix buggies was destroyed. All the vehicles were damaged.
Tho river is high and railway communication interrupted. At Paeroa a washout occurred, about £500 worth of damag^ being done.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13481, 22 July 1907, Page 5
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96STORM AT TE AROHA. Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13481, 22 July 1907, Page 5
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