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WEST AUSTRALIAN CYCLONE POLES BENT LIKE CANDLES By Telegraph—Copyright---Press Assn. PERTH, April 7. Details of the cyclone on the north-west coast show that iron telegraph poles were bent like candles. The damage at Onslow is estimated at £BO,OOO, mostly through the destruction of the jetty, 900 feet of which toppled into the sea. Port Hedland reports that the railway to Marble Bar is partly submerged. The train service is now suspended and Marble Bar supplies are runinng short. The Port Hedland landing ground is under water, and aeroplanes are held up at Broome.,
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 88, 9 April 1934, Page 5
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