A CYCLONE.
EXTENSIVE DAMAGE DONE. MANY EXCITING INCIDENTS. Press Association—Electric Telegraph—CoDyrig! (Received Thursday, 11.10 a. 111.) PERTH, This Day. Cyclonic disturbances are reported at Kalgoorlie and Boulder. Extensive damage was done' and buildings were razed to the ground. Fences were carried away, houses unroofed, electric light wires blown down, and towns plunged in darkness. At Boulder a. theatre in which a number of youths were training for the boxing competitions collapsed, burying them in the debris. Five were sent to hospital, one of whom, Keith Edwards, is in a critical condition. The storm occurred 011 Tuesday night, but as the telegraph lines were blown down, the towns had been isolated since and communication has just been restored. At Kalgoorlie a young woman was blown down ' an open shaft seventy feet deep, but was not seriously injured. Torrential rain followed the cyclone, causing wasliaways and seriously interrupting railway communications. Great damage also was caused at Boddalin, Oarrahin and Westonia, where the wheat crops were destroyed. —P.A.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 10 December 1925, Page 5
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165A CYCLONE. Wairarapa Daily Times, 10 December 1925, Page 5
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