ISLAND FAMILY'S MISFORTUNE.
WATERSPOUT WRECKS HOMESTEAD. A TERRIBLE NIGHT. [By Telegraph—Press Association.] AUCKLAND, April 12. The Amokura, which has just returned from her annual cruise to the Kermadecs, brought back the Bell family from Sunday Island. Last April a waterspout wrecked their plantations, crops and houses. Amid dense darkness; the downpour eominrenced and increased to such proportions that it soon flowed through the. houses, carrying everything before it. The unfortunate family found their way to higher ground, where they took refuge from the floods and huge landslips which thundered down. In the morning it was found that , the plantations were covered to a depth of many feet with earth from landslips. The only remains of the houses were a very few posts. The whole of the winter stock of food disappeared, and the family had' great difficulty in tiding over the winter. They decided to return i/O New Zealand on the first opportunity, which came in the Amokura's arrival on the anniversary of the disaster.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10211, 13 April 1911, Page 5
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165ISLAND FAMILY'S MISFORTUNE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10211, 13 April 1911, Page 5
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