HEAVY GALES

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1923, Page 3

HEAVY GALES

damage TN.CANTERBURY. [ry tki.kgiiAru— rr.it ritEss association. 1 CHRISTCHURCH. December 28. A gale has been severely felt in the country districts. Advice from An foe: ley states that th* telephone and telegraph lines were damaged there. A windmill at Amberlev Railway Station was blown down. Trees in all pails of the district were uirooted.

Several i f the recently erected electric lines and poles were blown down. Roofs were blown off sheds, and grain ■tacks were strewn over the landscape. At Waiau, sheets of iron wire shitted Loin bolls**:;, - lled.s Hole i bluel i-bed. tie < were .-mashed and uprooted, and fruit trees were stripped ol fruit. At Lee ten.' huge willow trees at the rear *ii Mr Fisher's residence were unrooted, aid )• I! on a house. The in-

mate- had a nano I .*, escape. ( HliiSTt 111'RCH, Do

(lie* of the most terrific noitli wester- experienced in Canterbury for vei> many years visited the litv and country to-day. An immense amount of damage bus been done to gardens in all pnits d Christchurch, trees being broken flown .*:ul up looted, buddings being damag'd and fences levelled.

Havo.* was played with the beats;*! Lyttelton and RedclifiV. Telegraph line- were interrupted on tho East and West Coasts t.o a di-a-trou- extent. In one ease, lie* roof of the (Basil vi- Railway Station was blown off. currying away the telegraph lines, and demolishing two poles.

Ill* full force of the gale was exjierioiucd at Lyttelton. Accompanying the violent squalls wore clouds of dust and pebbles, almost as large n, peas. The I «■(■ 11 1** found it difficult to move about. Emit tree- mi exposed places suffered.

The mooring lines of the Canadian Chalb'ilger wo:e carried away and ill, crew had a Laid time in galling new ,ji u-•; out. Many euaper-' taut- all o', or tin* district were blown to shreds. A: Sumner, the nnniu I gala was being. held to-day luu- id I the tents were levefled, and the function was abandon; <l. CMRISTCnCRC If. D* e. 28. One end of the Chureli at Glenuiarl; was blown out. and tho reef of tie* railway station was lifted off. Crops and slack - were -wept clean away. Standing grain was broken dew u. and il will not be worth cutting. At Anilicrie*. and el-e where windmills. outbuildings, i rt*e.s and stacks were blown down, and oal- ill stack v.ei'i blown miles away. Traffic on the north railway line w.ainlerru’: fed owing to trees falling ;e*ross me nioials.