SEVERE HAILSTORM IN OAMARU DISTRICT
SHOWER OF MINIATURE GOLF BALLS
CROFS SERIOUSLY DAMAGED
(t’er i’tess Association)
Dunedin, January 8. A!,- -m 2 0 clock yesterday afternoon the countryside about Oamani was alUlus', enveloped m darkness, and Ui.n there <unie blinding Hashes of ligldmng and tremendous trashes of thunder, 'the heavo.is appealed immediately alterward- |,j open up and liberate a shower of miniature golf balls. For fully ten minutes balls of ice descent led and the ground was covered deep with a mantle of white. Thu fuff extent of the havoc wrought by the storm cannot be us erlamed for a day or two,'but one motorist who readied town last night estimates- it at thousands of pounds. 'Hie damage to flops will be particularly serious. one fanner who had ordered two new paper machines telephoned lei the mer'■hauls cancelling the order, as lie dated tiis crops had been (omjlctely mined.
Slij< k must also have suffered <on. siderably, though reports are fragment, ary and inconclusive. On January 0, IBW then; was a similar visitation, when hailstones crashed through the n r on rods of buildings in all directions.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 9970, 8 January 1929, Page 3
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187SEVERE HAILSTORM IN OAMARU DISTRICT Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 9970, 8 January 1929, Page 3
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