Spectacular Wind Damage

Two minutes of freak wind gusts hit the city late last year, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.

Hardest hit by the gusts was the storage yard of Clare and Clare Ltd, in Kahutia Street, where a large iron and wood roof was lifted clean off its building (below), and deposited as a heap of broken wreckage in an adjacent yard (below right).

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The main glass house in Lee Bros Nursery, Buiwer Road, suffered many broken panes. Here Mr Fred Lee surveys his nursery from a gaping hole in the damaged glass house.

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Mr R. Clarke, groundsman at the Te Hapara School, poses with the large tree in front of the school which was uprooted by the wind.

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