A HEAVY GALE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1942, Page 5

A HEAVY GALE

DAMAGE AT CARTERTON MANY BUILDINGS SUFFER. ROOFS BLOWN AWAY. (“Times-Age” Special.) The heavy wind storm on Saturday morning caused considerable damage to buildings in Carterton, already badly shaken by the earthquake. The premises of the W.F.C.A., the Salvation Army Red Shield Club in Tyler's Building, Mr W. R. Harry, Messrs Hill and Hughes and the Wairarapa Brick Tile and Drainpipe Company’s works received the full force of the gale. At the W.F.C.A. building the top front over the ironmongery department was blown down. Part of the roof covering this department was torn clean away, one half falling on the grocery department roof and the other crashing to the ground. In falling it cut the electric wires. At Tyler’s building the top brick front had to be demolished, as it was unsafe. The Wairarapa Brick, Tile and Drainpipe Company’s building was very extensively damaged and there is very little of the roof left. The whole of the top was blown clean away and landed in a clay pit some 500 yards away. The southern wall collapsed. A large portion of the roof was carried over the high chimney stacks into adjoining paddocks. The stacks and kilns remain intact, and there has been no damage to the machinery. The damage done by the earthquake and the gale to the works will amount to thousands of pounds.