"MOST SEVERE FOR YEARS"
ASHBURTON TREES SUFFER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ASHBURTON, Friday. One of the most severe hailstorms for years was experienced in a wide area of Ashburton County this afternoon. It lasted for half an hour. Stones as big as or bigger than pigeons' eggs stripped the fruit and other trees. Rape waa flattened and wheat and oats were damaged. In one district one or two windows were broken. Intermittent rain during and since the Christmas holidays is causing apprehension regarding cereals, but rape and turnips are benefiting. Shearing is being delayed, as farmers, owing to the condition of the sheep, following the winter pasture shortage, put off the work as long as possible, and the rain intervened.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 5, 6 January 1934, Page 11
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