Headline 1: Welcome start to day after storm : "Many parents and pupils of Foxton Primary School had endured 24 hours without electricity. On discovering their plight acting principal Ani Rauhihi yesterday extended a warm welcome and breakfast in the warnth of the school staff room...."
Headline 2: The meals must get through : "With no electricity, winds gusting up to 130kmh and 45 elderly customers relying on their meals being delivered Levin cook Sonia Finlayson took the bull by the horns and got the job done on Wednesday...."
Headline 3: A night in the dark : Brooke Williams (9 yrs), Hone Smith (9 yrs) and Joseph Edmonds (8 yrs) from Foxton tell how they spent their night without electricity in Foxton.
Photographs: 1. Joseph Edmonds (8 yrs), Hone Smith (9 yrs) and Brooke Williams (9 yrs) tucking into breakfast at Foxton Primary School, 2. Sonia Finlayson from Marion's Meals on Wheels. 3. Truck blown onto its side on SH 56 north of Shannon, 4. Brooke Williams, 5. Hone Smith and Joseph Edmonds.
