WHIRLWIND ON FARM.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 129, 13 March 1935, Page 3

WHIRLWIND ON FARM.

SECOND IN NINE MONTHS ROOF CARRIED AAV AY TWICE. For the second time in nine months a whirlwind visited the farm of Mr H. Mace, at Tuirangi, Taranaki, the other day, and for the second time it removed the roof of the fowl house. The experience was a shock to Mrs Mace, the miniature cyclone lifting the iron and woodwork into the air, carrying it bodily for 30 yards and finally depositing it with a tremendous crash on the side of the house, against the room where Mrs Mace was working. The occurrence took place between 9 and 10 a.m. neighbours witnessing the whirlwind advancing up the valley. It sheered branches off poplar trees oii the side of a nearby hill and changing direction, swooped upon the fowlhouse. The iron was carried across a flourishing vegetable garden and smashed a window in the house as it was deposited. This incident was a remarkable coincidence, said Mrs Mace. Nine months ago a whirlwind advanced from the sa°ne direction, "removed branches from the same poplars and then dumped the same fowlhouse roof in the vegetable garden'. "Last time the whirlwind came at night, and we spent hours in the darkness collecting badly-scared fowls. They were just commencing to lay and. the egg supply was stopped completely: This time the' fowls were having an offseason, and it will not make much difference."