DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1928, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

A TORNADO PASSES. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Sept. 25. The front half of the roof of a six roomed house was ripped off, the side blown out of a motor garage, outhouses overturned, wireless aerials brought to earth, flowers and shrubs flattened by a tornado which cut a path of wreckage through St. Helier’s district at six o’clock this morning. Residents state the visitation was ot a startling nature and almost tropical in its severity.

A VETERAN PASSES. AUCKLAND, Sept. 25., Charles Williamson, one of the oldest residents of Auckland, died last , night, aged 92 years. He arrived here in 1862 and took a leading part in the earliest journalism. He was a correspondent during the Waikato War, and tbeaime manager of the “Southern Cross’’ newspaper for many years. Since 1876 he was. in business as a land and estate agent. HANDICAPPER APPOINTED. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 24. Mr George Paul, junior, of Auckland, has been appointed as handicapper to the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club. Mr Paul has acted for some years as handicapper to the Auckland and Otahuhu .Clubs. He now succeeds the late Mr H. Brinkman as the principal trotting handicapper for the South Island. .<