ANOTHER TORNADO
TARANAKI NOW A ZIG-ZAG COURSE TREES RAZED AND BARNS DAMAGED BUSH-CLAD GULLY STRIPPED (Per Press Association) New Plymouth, Juno 26. A startling tornado occurred; in the Oruiero district, north of Waitarn, during a severe electrical storm this afternoon. Sweeping up from the sea in a zigzag course, it wrought liavoc on a number of farms, razing belts of trees and damaging bams and other buildings. The fury of the tornadowas shown in a gully, the sides of which were clothed in. heavy native bush. Here, timber was uprooted on masse, the roots of the trees lifting the earth with them, so that; tho hilhndpsi afterwards presented the appearance of haying been subject t 6 a big landslide. The storm raged'furiously for some time, hailstones of extraordinary size, pelting down.
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Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2244, 27 June 1929, Page 6
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