CAMP WRECKED
VIOLENT STORM By Telegraph—Press Association INVERCARGILL, September 29. A violent north-westerly storm on E-ptember 14 completely wrecked No. 1 Public Works camp, Milford Sound, but no one was injured. Thunder and lightning accompanied the gale which plucked tents from the ground and dumped them hundreds of feet away. Trees were uprooted and sheets of Iron hurtled through the air. Although no one was injured there were many narrow escapes. One workman was lying in bed with measles when an iron gable shorn from a hut some distance away was hurled against his tent. It struck one of the stout poles of the tent and the man was unscathed.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21155, 30 September 1938, Page 8
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