Destructive Gale at New Plymouth.
(Per Press Association). New Plymouth, This Daj. The heavieut south easterly gale ever felt here was blowing all yesterday and during the night, and has not yet expended itself. A new roof on a bouse was blown off, the high school chimney snapped off at the roof, the National Bank bad its roof so damaged that men had to be got to repair it j'esterday. Fences were blown down in all directions including one at the railway station, the totalisator honse on the racecourse and the stable at Weetman's house have been blown down, the church at Omota is a wreck. The volocity of the gale averaged 362 per hour.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 342, 18 June 1894, Page 2
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115Destructive Gale at New Plymouth. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 342, 18 June 1894, Page 2
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