GREAT WATERSPOUTS.
NEAR FAREWELL SPIT.
MEASURED A MILE ACROSS.
SHIPMASTER'S REPORT.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) GISBORNE, this day. Submarine disturbances were reported to have occurred in the Tasman Sea at a place approximately one and a-half miles north-west of Farewell Spit on July 13. Captain Thomsen, of the ketch Huanui, states that the disturbances were caused through waterspouts. According to Captain Thomsen, the vessel was not more than two miles away when the first waterspout was noticed. It was a particularly large one, measuring about one mile across, and reaching for some distance into the air. It was followed by several others, and the sight was spectacular, but they gradually moved away till they disappeared over the horizon. At the time of the occurrence the Huanui was nearly half-way between Kahurangi lighthouse and Farewell Spit. The weather was dull and showery.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 172, 23 July 1929, Page 9
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