DAMAGE ON OTIRA LINE

Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1923, Page 1

DAMAGE ON OTIRA LINE

As a result of the boisterous weather experienced on Sunday, the sawmills at Wallis’ Siding were idle yesterday as far as milling operations were concerned.

At Wallis’ Siding about seventy-live feet of the mill-roof was blown away from one side, the engine slack came I" grief, and the roof was completcl.' stripped from the house occupied l>\ Mr Gins Brown.

At Tiiehboiinie, tilings wore rather worse: timber from the skids was strewn over the railway yard, iron was 'wrenched from the mill roof in several places, and the loco shed completely wrecked. Hall a dozen sheets ot iron (w ere stripped from the roof ol Mr Lailcaster’s hoarding house, a tank was stove in. and the paper blown from the inside walls of the house. Other houses at liichhoiinie also suffered to a minor extent, and residents had ail anxious time while the gale was at its height. In one instance the verandah posts were lifting, and two children were trying to hold them down while the father nailed them, when a hoard came (lying along and struck one girl oil the arm. At Rotoinanii some ol the haystacks were badlv damaged. The wind had fallen yesterday, but tile weatber was still showery. At To Kinga Hie weather, although windy and unpleasant, caused no damage.