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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 727, 30 December 1933, Page 5

? Gisborne, Friday. ' Heavy south-west gales have been raglng all to-day with gusts of wind at times of terrific force. Very heavy seas are running. Fruit crops, 1 especially early varieties of apples and peaches suffered severely. Tele- • giraphic comanunicat-ion both north and south was interrupted during the day through branches falling on the lines and work is still being carried on under difficult conditions \ At Wainui beach, a resort four miles from Gisborne, a hous-e the construction of which was only finish- ; ed yesterday, was blown down. See- ; tions of the building covered the roadside, A little further on a garage was blown down and many trees throughout the district were rooted up while early maize crops thrse or four feet high, were flattened On top of the Whareata Hills on the main highway between Gisborne and Napier the gale is considered the worst in history, whares being; unroofed and even ' blue gum trees blown down in all direetions