ROOFING IRON MISTAKEN FOR AEROPLANE
WHIRLWIND WRECKS PIGSTY (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 4. Roofing iron swept into the air by a whirlwind during a thunderstorm in the Uruti district to-day was mistaken for a crashing aeroplane. The New Plymouth police were informed and investigations were made. A rumour was current that a well-known Taranaki pilot had crashed. All the aeroplanes in the North Island were accounted for. The police discovered that a whirlwind wrecked a pigsty and carried sheets of iron distances up to two miles.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22111, 5 June 1937, Page 14
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