WEYMOUTH.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 718, 28 March 1922, Page 5

WEYMOUTH.

A severe gale, with heavy rain squalls, has been raging here for the last nine days. Owners ' of boats, yachts and launches have had an anxious time attending to moorings and anchors.

Mr McLeod’s Spray dragged her anchor last week, but was secured before any damage was donef. Early Wednesday morning of this week Mr Craig’s yacht Ailsa broke her anchor ways (which had dragged badly during the night, and capsizing, drifted up Weymouth creek. It was later seen by Mr Middleton, jun., coming down with the ebb tide.. Her owner was communicated with, and upon his arrival here she was soon righted, baled out, and towed to a safe anchorage, not a sixpenny worth of damage having been done to her. Even a hammer, her tiller and a cleat which were loose in her bilge not being lost overboard. Mr Craig is to be congratulatd on his good fortune, as if she had veered on to the reef off Point she would have been badly stove In.

Owing to the bad weather fishing operations have been somewhat in abeyance, the fish making for the deep water. Recently Mr White caught a nice king fish in the ferries, weighing 17 pounds. They are very seldom caught here, in fact it is many years since a fish of these species was bagged in Weymouth waters, The culvert under the road by Mr Norman Williams’ property has been cleaned out, the ditch widened and taken through on to the beach, and new railings put up, making a great improvement on the road to th west beach.

Many motorists have found their way to Weymouth lately, askng if

this is the road to the Waikato, etc., This has been caused by there being no proper finger post at the corner of Massey road and Station road in Manurewa, traffic having to make a divergence from the Great South Road to avoid the closed portion of the latter road, which is to be tarred. The sign should have been provided, as this means annoyance to travellers, who do not know the road, Weymouth being three miles off the South Road.