SATURDAY'S STORM.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1915, Page 6

SATURDAY'S STORM.

MANUKAU HARBOR A CAULDRON. Mamikau (Auckland) felt the storm which startled Wellington on Saturday morning. The Auckland Star says: "The Manukau harbor was like a boiling cauldron on Saturday morning. There was a very high • tide, and the water was churned up into great breakers by the south-west gale which was blowing. The full force of the storm was felt on the wharf and adjoining breastwork -and on the new Mangera bridge. From eight o'clock onwards heavy seas broke over the Mangere bridge, making it next to impossible for pedestrians to cross, and washed right over the structure into the bay on the south side. The railway from the wharl to the Tramway Company's tea kiosk, the new wharf recently built by the Auckland Harbor Board, and the road leading to it were damaged by the heavy seas. Two boats at anchor in Geddes' Basin were driven ashore, and a fishing yacht dragged her anehoi and drifted towards Mangere bridge, where she was in'danger of being smashed to pieces. The Northern Company has a gridiron, 011 which they clean and. repair their vessels, situated between'the wharf and the railway leading to the kiosk. One of the four dolphins on one side of it was driven up by the sea and completely wrecked, Tho3c engaged 011 the Onehunga wharf and vicinity state that there has not been such heavy weather for many years. After the tide began to ebb the sea moderated a little, and at midday the wharf and bridges were no longer bombarded by the breakers. The s.s. Karawa arrived an hour late, having experienced a trying passage from New Plymouth.