FIVE KILLED IN GALE; HOUSES UNROOFED.
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2.) (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received November 17, 4.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 16. Five were killed and many injured throughout the country by the gale. Velocities of 100 miles an hour are recorded, as against the coast record, inland. A velocity of 90 miles an hour was registered at Carding ton Airship Station. Thirty families are homeless at Ebbwvale, where houses on the mountain side were blown down. Innumerable instances of the unroofing of factories, houses and schools are reported. The Law Court’s clock in the Strand was in danger of falling, and the street was barricaded to safeguard pedestrians. —Australian Press Association.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18615, 17 November 1928, Page 5
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