VIOLENT GALES ON EAST COAST.
AWE-INSPIRING SCENES AT KAIKOUBA. Blenheim. June 10. During the week-end the most violent gale in living memory was experienced nil along the oast coast, ail'd it is reported that a considerable amount of damage lias been done in various localities by the tremendous seas which pounded on the beach. The storm set in on Fridav morning, and reached its peak about two o’clock on Sunday afternoon, the seas roaring in with tremendous force at high tide, and battering along the entire const lino.
About a chain of l'dad lias- been washed away here, but no serious damage lias been done to the road la tween Kaikoura and Blenheim. From the Ilapuku up to Kekerangn, however, the sea lias swept over the road for miles, and the whole route to-dny was covered with seaweed, drill wood, and huge boulders. The storm was the greatest ever experienced at the Wairau Bar, and the effect of the huge waves breaking at the river month was noticeable as far up stream at Blenheim. The small jelly at the piled station was damaged bv the waves.
Christchurch, June 1(1. Whilst standing on a concrete embankment on flic roadway about six miles on the Culvendcit side of the lirst tunnel on flu* Cheviot road oi: Sunday, three women, Mrs McClcarv (2) and Mrs Surridge. were washed info the sea. Mr Brian McClenry. the. Ail-Black and a wellkn'owp boxer, was responsible for snvilig |V life of Mrs Surridge. whilst" I lie other women were able to scramble ashore themselves. Napier. June 16. The liciviest sea during living nieicorv was running in Hawke.s Bay yesterday. The waves carried ail immense'quantity of shingle on to (be Fast Coast railway, and the mu in North Road, both of which will be impassable for a day or two. No other material damage was done. Gisborne, June 16. The heaviest seas old residents have seen'were running along the East Coast on Saturday and Sunday.
At Tokomaru Bay some damage was done to the wharf, and the passengers’ landing stage was washed away.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2746, 17 June 1924, Page 2
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345VIOLENT GALES ON EAST COAST. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2746, 17 June 1924, Page 2
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