A BIG BLOW

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2332, 14 December 1914, Page 4

A BIG BLOW

GALE FROM THE NORTH-WEST. Wellington, enjoys an unenviable repu*. tation for wind, which at all times intj the past'has not been, justified, but dur-j ing tbo past month it has blown itself? to the uttermost limits of its reputa-tj tion, and whatever there be of summer' in the air never gets a chance to pro< claim itself. The weather of late has,, ' in short, been a succession of boisterous! ealos from the north-west, which have! the capacity to blow with •undiminished! force the round of the clock. Saturday was marred by such weather, _ audi though the rain held off, the conditions' wero not at all conducive to a pleasantf week-end. ,'

Yesterday the conditions' were infwj nitely worse. The gale blew furiously,! the entire day through, with intermit-j tent showers of driving rain,-. whioKl mercifully helped to lav the dust. The surface of the harbour was a boiling l mass of foam, and at high water the. onray was dashed against the houses irt Clyde Quay, and big seas leaped-the re-; taining wall alonw the newly-reclaimedri land east of the Taranaki Street Wharf*;, A good deal of minor damage is report*; ed, the sale having leued a fairly) heavy toll in fences and battered gaw dens.