VIOLENT STORM
VICTORIAN VISITATION. . TWO PERSONS KILLED. MELBOURNE, Sunday. A violent sandstorm with a velocity of between 50 and 60 miles per hour swept Melbourne to-day, resulting in much damage. A boy, aged 10, and a woman, 26, were killed at Relgrave Hill, a resort near the city, by a falling tree. A boy, a man, and a horse and cart were , blown through a shop window at Port Melbourne. Trees are down across the St. Kilda Road, and there is much damage to fences in the suburbs. Two boats are missing on Port Phillip Bay. Yachts were also driven ashore and wrecked. The storm arose suddenly and blew with unabated violence all (lay. Many reports of damage to crops are now coming in from country areas. The. storm was still fierce to-night.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 14 September 1936, Page 5
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