VIOLENT THUNDERSTORM.
NEW YEAR EXPERIENCE AT HASTINGS. (by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) HASTINGS, Jan. 2. A violent, dazzling, brilliant e J ec “ trieal disturbance visited Hastings just after midnight on New Year’s Hay. Coming from the south, in blinding flashes and with deafening thunder, it seemed to spend its fury on the t-own, culminating in hurtling a large g' ot) ® of fire across the sky, which changed night to noon and burst with a terrific report, causing much alarm and extinguishing the town’s electric lights. Soon after the storm sped out to sea. No serious damage is reported.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 January 1926, Page 4
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97VIOLENT THUNDERSTORM. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 January 1926, Page 4
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