COTTAGES LEVELLED
whirlwind at MOKAI By Telegraph—Press Association ROTORUA, January 6. A local whirlwind of considerable intensity unroofed two sawmills and wrecked four workmen's cottages lalonging to the Taupo-Totara Timber Company at Mokai, about 30 miles from Rotorua on Wednesday afternoon. Fortunately the employees had not returned after Christmas and the buildings were all empty with the exception of one mill where a small number of men were engaged carrying out repairs to the machinery. (The men had little warning of the visitation which tore the corrugated iron from the roofs of the two buildings and whirled it through the air for a distance of more than 100 yards. The glass windows were also shattered and the heavy beams in the roof displaced. Four workers’ cottages in the track of the whirlwind were levelled to the ground. The whirlwind passed as quickly as it had come, leaving behind it a trail of devastation within the area occupied by the mill buildings. So far as can be ascertained, no damage was done in other parts of the district.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20929, 7 January 1938, Page 6
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