GALE AT GREYMOUTH.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8870, 22 July 1907, Page 2

GALE AT GREYMOUTH.

Extensive Damage. (Press Association.) Gkeymouth, July 21. The severest gale ever remembered swept over the town on Saturday night and Sunday morning, doing enormous damage. Nearly every place in the business portion of the town suffered some damage. On Mawhera Quay plate glass windows were smashed, and several verandahs carried bodily away. Roofs o£ sheds in the railway yard were torn off, and Detective Campbell’s residence was almost totally destroyed. Victoria Park suffered severely, the grandstand being blown down and fences laid low. Two houses in course of erection near the park collapsed. A foundry roof was tiken off. Residential portions had fences blown down, trees uprooted and several chimneys blown down. The gale is still raging and it is unsafe to be in the streets. Sheets of iron, etc., are flying everywhere. The damage is estimated to run into thousands of pounds. Although there were several narrow escapes, no serious accidents are reported.