STORMY WEATHER
♦ GALE IN WELLINGTON. SCHOOL PARTLY UNROOFED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Stormy weather of unusual violence was 'experienced in Wellington city and suburbs yesterday, when a gale was accompanied by torrential rain and hail. During the morning and again in the early afternoon thunder and vivid lightning startled residents of Wellington and the Hutt Valley, where some damage was done by lightning. There were numerous stages in the day when the wind reached a velocity of 60 m.p.h. The heaviest gust occurred at 5 p.m., when the velocity was 73 miles an hour. Half the roof of the Mt. Carmel Convent School, Hataitai, was torn away by a strong gust of wind at about 2.15 p.m. yesterday. At about the same time, the force of the wind overturned a car in Hohiria Road. The vehicle was righted, but before it could proceed on its way it was blown over again. The car was damaged but no one was injured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1943, Page 3
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162STORMY WEATHER Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1943, Page 3
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