CYCLONE IN WESTRALIA.
SCHOONER BLOWN AGROUND. -
MISSION STATION SUFFERS.
PERTH, January 30
A cycone struck the coastal dis.tricts in the vicinity of Broome and caused considerable damage.
The Schooner Mena was blown aground in shallow water in Beagle Bay.
Fifty-one people flboard the Mena managed to reach the' shore safely after a hazardous swim of five hundred yards.
All, the roads are blocked by fallen trees.
Many . windmills are overturned. The Beagle Bay mission station suffered severely, but so far as is known nobody has been injured.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4933, 1 February 1926, Page 2
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87CYCLONE IN WESTRALIA. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4933, 1 February 1926, Page 2
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