STORM AND TIDAL WAVE.
PEARLING CUTTERS WRECKED. MUCH DAMAGE CAUSED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. ♦ ' Perth, Feb. 22. Sixteen pearling cutters were broken up by the “willy willy” on Saturday and four are* missing. Tidal waves flooded all the houses in Denham township. The damage is estimated at £lO,OOO. The loss of life is unknown, but the fate of three Malays and a native is uncertain. The worst damage done by Saturday’s storm was in Shark’s Bay, where most of the pearling cutters were wrecked, also great damage sustained by small craft. ' T* At Carnarvon torrential rain and a tidal wave combined made the Gascoyne River overflow, the floods causing considerable damage.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1921, Page 6
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110STORM AND TIDAL WAVE. Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1921, Page 6
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