On 12 May 1926 the winds on Tinakori Hills proved too strong for the steel lattice tower erected just three years earlier at Wellington Radio ZLW.





![Staff at ZLW in 1926: Seated L-R: D McMahon, JD Hampton [sic - should be JH Hampton] (Supt), RMA Thompson. Standing: JF Sullivan](http://maritimeradio.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/1933_zlw-staff_600.jpg)
Photo: AW Schaef, New Zealand Free Lance, 19 May 1926
On 12 May 1926 the winds on Tinakori Hills proved too strong for the steel lattice tower erected just three years earlier at Wellington Radio ZLW.