A SMALL CYCLONE

Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1929, Page 1

A SMALL CYCLONE

GREYMOUTH. June 20. Shortly after 2.45 o’clock yesterday afternoon the wind took on something of the nature of a cyclone near the waterfront, and several shops had their windows damaged, whilst another phenomenon was the “ stacking up ” of water in the river, where one long column was suddenly formed, extending up-stream, which subsided with a loud sound. The cyclone smashed the skylights at Mundv’s restaurant and Sing Leo’s fruit shop in Boundary Street, also two of the leadlights at Miss Saraty’s .shop, where previously the earthquake had buckled one o'f the walls at a rear corner. At the Albion Hote' the extensive quake damage was increased hy the wind, which forced in a window with its easement upon two of the dining room tables, smashing up everything on the tables. The gale also swept from the front of the Brian Born Hotel along the Quay as far as Tcnncnt’s jewellery shop a large case used by the trawler “Nile” as the counter for weighing and serving out fish. It came to a stop on the footpath with the weighing scales still inside. Further up Mawhera Quay the cyclone smashed three big plate glass windows, one l ift by 7-J-it, in Thorp.v’s drapery emporium; another of similar

dimensions in Ashby Berghs, and the third one elf Tymens’ large front windows; whilst at Ogilvie’s mercery shop the frame of one window was broken. The wind also blew down a number of fences in different parts of the town whilst any damaged chimneys remaining up would doubtless have also suffered further.