An American actress is said, to wear stockings literally as fine as a spider’s 1 web. In fact, she carries a dainty little swatter to keep foolish flies away. Americans recent devastating hurricane. was more of an amusement than a terror for Mr C. G. Parish, who has returned to Christchurch from the United States. Mr Parish was in the offices of the “New York News” when the gauge showed a wind velocity of 35 miles an hour, and when he went outside he saw with his own eyes at least 500. umbrellas collapse. Carts were picking up discarded umbrellas all next day. Three girls standing together on a corner laughed so much at the misfortune of a woman nearby who was enveloped in her umbrella that they neglected to hold their own straight, and one after the other the three umbrellas were blown out. Temperatures were too high for overcoats, Mr Parish explained.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1938, Page 8
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