WEST COAST ALSO SUFFERS.
GREYMOUTH, August 13. Buildings were unroofcd aud overlieud wiring tangied during a violent • storm at Otira oarly this morning. Tlie j iron from the rooi of tlie school wasj tlung against other buildings and cut : the power and telophone lines. The! h'ailways Department 's transformer! slied was blown over and partly piled up against an adjoiuing hotol. ■] Oue railway employee had a nerve-j wracking experieuce, but escaped in- ' jury, when the railway hut in which lie i was sleeping was turned over twice by! Ihe force of the gale, which was accom- . panied by heavy rain aud lightning. ! All automatic signaJling on the Mid/ land line today was inoperative, but j po wer was reslored, enalding the Grey-I inouth-Cliristchurch expresses to run. ' Overnight tratlic 011 the line was sus- j pended by a landslide at Nellie's Creek/ i > 11 1 tlie line was cleared early tliis; morning. 1 The most serious trafiic interruption i occurred between Reefton and Inanga- i hua Junction, whcre two spans of the combined road aud railway bridge over' Larrv's Oreek, near Cronadun, were, washed away, isolating Westport from' the Midland line, aud cutting the i direct road link to Nelson. The Lowis j Pass road is also blocked by a land- | slido east of Springs Junction.
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 August 1946, Page 7
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