TERRIFIC HAILSTORM

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11326, 2 October 1930, Page 5

TERRIFIC HAILSTORM

AUCKLAND GARDENS SUFFER

COUNTRYSIDE STREWN WITH WHITE. ‘

('Special To The Times). AUCKLAND. Oct. IHavoc was 1 wrought to gardens on North Shore this morning by one of the worst hailstorms that has ever been experienced in the district- tor some time. The , storm lasted about ten minutes, v anil, then passed on, leaving the country-side strewn with white. ““Tt " looked almost like snow,” said one resident. Devonporrt, Nortlicote, _ Takapnna , and Birkenhead were all in the path of the storm;vwhieh was hardly felt in the Pity. " Tii' tho ' upper end of Nortlicote,-particularly,' the 1 nailstonos formed’ .figgbcl lumps of icc about the size of a fingernail, and were piled inches high'in the street nutters and-odd corners. In lower Nortlicote all tho ’i.Twns' wore left white, hut though the‘ storm was Severe'< ah cl last-id - for some • five minutes,- the hailstones' wero -not unusual'in size."'":.- , . r - Takapnna experienced a torriiic etorin-’-'THo hail .^vgo. lfeayy > that pdople living- 5h houses Avitli iron l’bofs' could uof hoar- themselves speak. .The hail .was . about -half an inch in sizog- and:.after the storm had passed it. was: loft' In piles almost a foot deep iji'places exposed -to, the tveather-f• Considerable damage was done to fruit 1 roes and gardens.