Heavy, showers which fell in the Sydney reservoir catchment area at the week-end are likely to afford some relief to the riietropolitan water shortage. Violent squalls accompanied yesterday’s rain. The wind velocity, reaching 65 miles an hour, unroofed a building at Mascot aerodrome, blew down a high wall in Auburn suburb and did extensive minor damage in the suburbs.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 259, 30 September 1940, Page 7
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