HAIL DESTROYS CROPS IN CANTERBURY
(Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) ASHBURTON, January 8. Heavy hail last evening is said to have completely destroyed a total of 300 acres of wheat and about 150 acres of oats in the Lauriston district, damaging other crops to an extent estimated at from 10 to 50 per cent. Crops have been cut down in places to the foa_ses of the stalks.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 89, 9 January 1942, Page 8
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