“LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE.”
DAMAGE IN PALMERSTON NORTH HOUSES COMPLETELY WRECKED. WELLINGTON, February 2. Sensational and disturbing reports of serious damage inflicted on Palmerston North were received to-day by the Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department A heavy easterly gale registering sixty miles an hour, accompanied by heavy rain was experienced. Seventy trees had fallen across the Napier telegraph line between Palmerston North and Ashhurst A message from Palmerston North said the city presented a scene of widespread damage and destruction almost compar-. able to an earthquake visitation. Plate glass windows were blown in, numerous houses unroofed and iron falling in caused other serious damage. In some cases houses were completely wrecked. One man was blown off a roof and fatally injured. Fences were blown down and huge trees uprooted in all directions. The Showground grandstand collapsed. It is impossible to make a comprehensive survey of the damage. The electric power is off and will probably remain so for three days. On city street is completely blocked by fallen trees.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 3 February 1936, Page 5
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