WIND IN A FROLIC.
DAMAGE AT URENUI. MAORI WOMAN'S ESCAPE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. A whirlwind swept inland from the sea near Urenui on Saturday, and practically wrecked a small house in which a Maori woman was living. The woman marvellously escaped injury, although thrown into a nearby hedge by the force of the wind. The house was unroofed and practically torn down, the contents being scattered ana broken, leaving little but the floor undamaged The whirlwind then continued across the main north road, damaging two sheds and a buggy in its course, and narrowly missing the main buildings of the Maori pa. People on the balcony of the Urenui Hotel saw 7 what appeared to them to be a waterspout travelling in from the sea into the mouth of the river near where it struck the first building. From a mile away they saw the iron from the roof of the house and other things flying through the air.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 205, 30 August 1926, Page 9
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