PATH OF DESTRUCTION
WHIRLWIND VISITS TE AWAMTJTTT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) TE AWAMUTU, 19th Nov. A whirlwind or some other unusual visitation occurred to-day during a heavy rain storm. Settlers along Frou tier and Punui roads heard a very loud noise, and before they realised the cause branches of trees were wrenched off and were scattered along a path several chains away. The whirlwind appeared to travel due southward, just missing Mr. Burns'b cowshed and crossing Frontier road to Mr. Nicholson's farm, where a cow,shed was completely demolished and part of the milking plant twisted. Then the pine trees on Mr. Whitton's farm were split, and boards and sheets of corrugated iron from the front of his big shed were strewn about. The path of the storm was only about a chain wide, and it extended for over a mile before being spent in the direction of Te Mawhai railway station-
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 123, 20 November 1926, Page 12
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150PATH OF DESTRUCTION Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 123, 20 November 1926, Page 12
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