STRONG GALE
WAIRARAPA DISTRICT BUFFETTED WHIRLWIND AT KAITUNA YESTERDAY. POULTRY PENS UNROOFED. Winds reaching gale force buffetted fruit trees and gardens throughout the Wairarapa during the weekend. With the exception of tljie Kaituna district little damage is reported. Shortly after one o’clock yesterday afternoon a small whirlwind struck Mrs I. Robbins’s poultry farm in Norfolk Road. A considerable amount of damage is reported. A length of roofing over the poultry sheds measuring some 100 feet was lifted off- the buildings and was carried over the top of an adjoining belt of pine trees over 50 feet high. The power lines were blown down, leaving 1,500 chicks under brooders without warmth. A car shed on Mr C. Moore’s property next door and a fowl-pen were lifted into some trees nearby. The wind blew with a force reminiscent of the gale of 1934. The power was off at Kaituna for a short period yesterday on account of power lines being blown down. A large shed on a property owned by Mr A. E. Tozer, Norfolk Road, was wrecked.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1941, Page 4
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