RAIN AND GALE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 86, 12 April 1945, Page 3

RAIN AND GALE

WEATHER ON WEST COAST. (P.A.) Westport, April 11. Following heavy rain and a driving gale overnight, two slips occurred on the Westport-Reefton railway, but they were cleared this afternoon, enabling the railcar to reach Westport this evening at 8 o'clock, an hour late. | Miners of Charming Creek held a I stop-work meeting and decided that] it was too stormy for them to proceed; to work in open trucks in a 40-min-utes run over some seven miles up-hill and after working all day in the mines, returning on top of coal trucks late in the afternoon. A survey has been made of a road, but construction is not yet under way. NORTH-WEST~STORM (P.A.) Christchurch, April 11. Since 1902 no higher temperature | has been reached in Christchurch in i April than the 82.7 degrees registered! this afternoon. The next highest tern-1 perature reached in recent years in | April was 81.8 degrees in 1936. The { highest temperature in the past sum-{ mer was 86.6 degrees, on February 1.; A high north-west wind has been j blowing in the Hawarden and Waikari • ■ districts since early morning and gusts of a velocity of about 60 miles an[ hour have been experienced. Trees' have been stripped of leaves and fruit! and several telephone lines have been! reported out of order. The wind is the heaviest experienced in the district tor some time. Fortunately r crops in the district have been harvested. The storm has been blowing’ at Hawarden since about. 6 o'clock | • this morning and at \vrlk3ri since about 10 o’clock. ■: