WHIRLWIND ON FARM
DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS SHED LIFTED OVER FENCE [by telegbaph—own cobbespondent] TAUKANGA, Tuesday A whirlwind restricted to a limited area struck the farm of Mr. F. R. Merriman in the Pye's Pa district, about seven miles from Tauranga, at 5.30 a.m. yesterday. A cowshed was unroofed and some of the corrugated iron sheets were carried a considerable distance. A small shed was lifted off its blocks and swept over a fence, while the tops and numerous limbs were torn off about a dozen wattle trees in a belt that is about 30ft. high.
The whirlwind was confined to a narrow track and no further damage has been reported.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22139, 19 June 1935, Page 10
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