Storm Rages Direlly

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 685, 10 June 1929, Page 9

Storm Rages Direlly

GREAT TRAIL OF HAVOC IN NEW SOUTH WALES HUGE SEAS POUND COAST Reed. 9 a.m. SYDNEY, Today. Accompanied by bitterly cold weather, cyclonic winds reaching a velocity of 62 miles an hour spread havoc throughout the metropolis aud along the coast. Two old-age pensioners died in different suburbs as a direct result of the extremely low temperature, the lowest for the year. A brick wall crumpled at Marriekville, burying a boy. He is likely to die. In other suburbs, razed and broken trees, hundreds of broken windows, and flying roofs were left in the trail of the gale. Blown to sea off Colleroy in a fish-ing-boat, five men just struggled ashore with their lives. Thundering seas pounded along the coast, and shipping was delayed. large freighter, with her anchors dragging and her screw racing for half an hour, managed to avert being dashed on the breakwater at Port Kembla. When a punt collided with a launch J? .V, 16 harbour, eight people were thrillmgly rescued. Many smaller craft dragged their moorings. AIRPLANE SMASHED Leaving Sydney, on a flight to Melboiirne, Mr. C. N. McKay, a member of the Flight Inquiry Board and president of the Victorian Aero Club, was forced down by adverse winds and landed at Bong Bong racecourse. Mr McKay secured the plane by ropes wedged into the ground, but the plane broke its moorings and overturned. Both wings, the propeller and the undercarriage were badly damaged.