TELEGRAMS.
[by tki.K l !n >mi —i'kb ritKss association)
A SMALL CYCLONE
NEW PLYMOUTH. April 18
Consternation prevailed on New Plymouth side of .Mount Kgmoiii yesterday, 1 lie cause being a small cyclone ■ which swept down the mountain side, striking the new mountain house in its. v.-ffil career, and lifting the root ul iron and doing considerable damage to the verandah. There was a large number of visitors to the mountain and dinner preparations were almost completed when the crash came. ( rockery ami pictures suliered considerably. Ihe house was bombarded with gravel whirled inside hv the storm. A motor
car which was parb-vl near the house, wa i caught hv the v im! storm and lifted, over n hank nearby end dmiosPed upside down in a gully below. I‘ultimately it sustained little damage and •was later recovered. No one was injured, but three ladies who acre sitting I,v the hank had a narrow escape, a -beet of roof iron tossed by the wind whirling past in dangerous proximity to them.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1922, Page 3
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170TELEGRAMS. Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1922, Page 3
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