BIG HAILSTONES
HAWKES BAY THUNDER-
STORM
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WAIPtrKTTRATT, This Day. A severe thunderstorm was experienced in various ; parts of central Hawkes Bay. last night from 6.30 o'clock onwards. Conditions were especially severe at Porangahau Beach and "Braeburn," where windows were broken by hailstones reported to1 be the size of sparrow's eggs. . . ( Between 7 ana 8 o'clock the heaviest fall of hail known to the present generation occurred in the Waristead and Wallingford areas. Fruit trees were stripped of their leaves, and tomato plants were cut down. In the Marakeko district wheat and rape crops were damaged. The hills in some parts were coated with hail, the effect resembling that of a snowfall. In most eases the hail fell in the form of jagged lumps of ice several inches in diameter. There was fork ana chain lightning, but the electric power service was not interrupted.
_The Governor-General is officially visiting Waipukurau this afternoon.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 16, 20 January 1933, Page 9
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154BIG HAILSTONES Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 16, 20 January 1933, Page 9
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