SOUTHERLY GALE
HEAVY RAIN AND SEAS. EXPERIENCED IN WELLINGTON YESTERDAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Driven by a strong southerly gale which at times reached a velocity of more than 60 miles an hour, heavy seas were breaking on the more exposed sides of Wellington harbour yesterday. Conditions in the city, which was swept by fierce rain squalls, • were bleak. Fairly big seas were coming over the railway line along the foreshore at Ngahauranga and toward Petone, and for most of the day the electric signals were out of action. After nightfall the gale seemed to increase in intensity, after blowing hard and steady for many hours.
A small schooner and a launch broke their moorings but were later secured without having sustained much damage.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1943, Page 2
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