EVERY TREE DENULED

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 381, 12 March 1937, Page 5

EVERY TREE DENULED

Twisted Iron and Woodwork

Press Association —Copyright. Received 11.15 a.m.

Darwin, March 12. Not one building in Darwin escaped damage, and every tree for miles around has been denuded of its branches or uprooted. The town looks like a battlefield, with twisted iron, broken woodwork and trees littering the streets.

Fences were blown bodily on to the roadways or hurled 100 yards and wrapped like paper around the telegraph poles. Not one windmill is left standing. The terrors of the cyclone were rendered more alarming wheh the electric light failed. An aboriginal was killed through being crushed in the wreckage of a house. No word has been received from the outlying mission stations. It is feared that the cyclone would have been more intense at Bathurst Island than at Darwin. It is unlikely that any news of the missing pearling fleet will be received for several days. The crews total 500.

A message from Canberra says that the Federal Cabinet has granted £200,000 to assist those .who suffered loss at Darwin, but the amount may be increased when more detailed information of the damage is received.