PARNELL WHIRLWIND
WOMEN NARROWLY ESCAPE
ROOP TORN OFF GARAGE
(Per Press Association) AUCKLAND, Last Night.
A few diroipis of rain which sent her indoors for shelter at 10.10 this morning, was all that saved Mrs M. A. Johnson, of Earil street, Parnell, from death or serious injury. A few seconds later a. whirlwind tore the roof from a nearby garage and '.strewed the garden where she had been working with heavy timbers and sheets of corrugated iron.
The whirlwind crossed the tramlines like a whirling pillar of dust. The greater part of two walls of 'the garage was flattened, and more than half the roof whirled into the air. Some of the 'timber and iron was carried over a house and fell dm a Mr Stanton’s hack yard exactly on the spot where a few seconds previously Mrs Stanton was weeding onions. One beam was driven through the door of an outhouse, while flying iron cut the 'electric wires..
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WPRESS19351127.2.37
Bibliographic details
Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 276, 27 November 1935, Page 5
Word Count
159PARNELL WHIRLWIND Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 276, 27 November 1935, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Waipukurau Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in