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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9404, 31 December 1910, Page 3

A very peculiar Occurrence was witnessed last "Wednesday morning in Mr John Morgan's-hay paddock at Aratapu (Auckland). A number* of hands were busily employed haymaking in >a 10-acre paddock adjoining the West Coast toady, when a whirlwind, started sfbout midway across the. paddock at the rear end. This soon gathered great force and 'scooped up the hay for about a chain vfiae right 'across-the enclosure, T<he hay was taken up in ithe air in a thick column several "hundred feet in resembled dense smoke. the' body broke'arid fell it covered:the,fences with large masses of hay,' The-.top. of the column then spread; out, and was to all appearances like" thousands of birds Hying in the air. -\ ■ ■,■: ■■ .■-.-.. ■ .■.;