HUGE SEAS AT MAKARA
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WAVES COME UP TO HOUSES WELLINGTON MAN DROWNEP
By Telearavh-
q WELLINGTON, April R. Waves of a height never seen before by fishprmcn whp ha?® lived there 45 years struck Makara, on the Cook Strait j coast, southrwest pf Wellington, about .2 a.m. .on ..Sunday are ; presampd to be' due ' to ihe NbrthiFaeifi^stidaJ ijinxre, One fishing boat .was washed out to sea and los't, and. the beach was littered with "tangled nets. - » • . • The . sea came up to the hopses, causing the alarmed jnhabjtants tp prepare to take to . tli&, hills,' : .High seas,were reppyfed alsp on ,the: west coast,, wherp the coastal road to " paekakariki was submerged in thviep places, .No damage is reported. Seas ran heavily alj day y^sr terday, causing astonishment owing to the absence of wind. Early in the mprpipgjah Mr tempt to recover a riet, wHich had been set ip th§ caJm py.eceding the big waves; resulted in a man being fijtrQwnpd gt Pukerua Bay. - Many fishermen's pets WQV§ washed ashore and damaged.. Small boats suffered ahd a 20fopter at Makara was. hadly knocked about. The Pukerua Bay victim was Henry Uponard Tgrepce Rpberts, .agPd 4i, mafrigd, children, Iinesman employed by the Wellington City Council.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 April 1946, Page 4
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