DISASTROUS HAIL.
MANY PEOPLE THROWN’ OUT OF WORK. The fruit-growing centre of Kecskemet (Hungary) recently suffered an unprecedented disaster in the form of a hailstorm which has annihilated the harvest. Twenty-five thousand persons have been thrown out of employment, among them 12,000 vine-dressers, whose vines are totally destroyed. The loss in apples and apricots is catastrophic, as the apricot export often amounted to 15,000 quintals. damaged area amounts to 30,000 acres. Many animals were killed, and several farm workers were only able to escape injury by holding spades over their heads while they raced to shelter. A flock of 16 geese were instantaneously killed iu the yard of a farm, and the farmer describes the pathetic efforts of two storks to save their young with, their own bodies on the housetop before they dropped dead.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10885, 11 August 1932, Page 3
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