CYCLONE AT TARANAKI
CONSTERNATION AMONG VISITORS TO EGMONT. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE. New Plymouth, April 17. • Consternation prevailed on the New Plymouth side of Mount Egmont to-day, the cause being a, small cyclone which swept down the mountainside, striking the new mountain house in its wild career, lifting the roof of iron, and doing considerable damage to the .verandah.
As to-day was Easter Monday, there was a large number of visitors to the mountain, and dinner preparations were almost completed when the crash came. Crockery and pictures suffered considerably, and the house was bombarded with gravel, whirled inside by the storm. A motor-car which was parked near the house, was caught by the windstorm, lifted over a hank nearby, and deposited upside down in the gully beloiv. Fortunately, it sustained little damage, and was later recovered.
No one was injured, hut three ladies, who were sitting by a bank had a narrow escape, a sheet of roof-iron, tossed by the wind, whirling past in dangerous proximity to them.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2418, 18 April 1922, Page 3
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166CYCLONE AT TARANAKI Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2418, 18 April 1922, Page 3
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