CYCLONIC GALE.
CAUSES DISASTROUS FERE'. HALF A MILLION DAMAGE. (Australian Press Association). (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, October. 8. • A gale this afternoon reached a cyclonio character for a time. Great damage was done in many suburbs, , buildings being ' unroofed in some instanced and carried away bodily, landing in a collapsed condition a hundred distant. Windows in the city suffered severely. During the height of the windstorm early this afternoon a fire broke, out in the Australian Paper Mills, Lane Cove. The river plant covered twenty acres and with three barges was gut--ted. The fire threatened to become r serious in the adjoining bush, but it is believed to be under control now,-, though several men engaged in fighting the flames had narrow escapes. The brigades had little chance against the fierce wind fanning the blaze, which it is supposed started in one of the barges, though the origin is inexplicable. The damage is estimated at half a million sterling. A FIERCE GALE. V/U SYDNEY, Oct. 8. Yesterday’s fierce hot gale, which raged for seven hours, reached a maximum velocity of 78 miles, and the temperature in Sydney was ninetyeight degrees.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1928, Page 5
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