DISASTER AT SUNDAY ISLAND.
AN UNFORTUNATE FAMILY
(Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, April 12. The Amokura, which has returned from her annual cruise to.the Kermadecs, brought back the Bell family from Sunday Island, where they had resided for many years. Last April a waterspout wrecked their plantations, crops, and houses. Amid dense darkness a downpour commenced, and increased to s.uch proportions'that water soon flowed through the houses, carrying'everything before it. The unfortunate family found their way to higher ground, where they took refuge from the floods, and the huge landslips which thundered down. In the morning it was found that the plantations "were covered to a depth of many feet with earth from the landslips, and the only remains of the Louses were a very few posts. The whole of the winter stock of food had disappeared, and the family had great difficulty in tiding over the winter. They decided to return to New Zealand on the first opportunity, which came in the Amokura on the anniversary of the disaster.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12726, 13 April 1911, Page 7
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169DISASTER AT SUNDAY ISLAND. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12726, 13 April 1911, Page 7
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