DELUGE OF ICE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 3108, 29 December 1921, Page 6

DELUGE OF ICE.

LIVE STOCK KILLED BY HAIL. SYDNEY, Doc. IE Leavin'/ devastation in its wake, an tin proem hm; <si hailstorm has .just passed over the itorth-v.vstorti district of New Son lit Wales. So terrific was its force that trees wore split like matchwood. AL Kelvm, in Ihe Gnnnedah district, the sic, 'it: reached lim fttii strength ol its fury. Nothing of the kind has been semi or heard of before. The hailstones are described as falling: blocks of ice, ami 1 lie nEe was deafening. 11, was I'keiied unto hi 11c medal being showered mi the lionse-tops from a great, height.

I' "ivls. i;i l)iiils, 1 1 ii (Is. and animals of all I,mile la;, ahniil dead in hundreds. A farmer's wile had more than a hundred lurhevs, valued a.I Cl per head, ready lor the (’hi'is)unis mark"!, 01 this uumher 'nil\ three remained alive, Xiimhers o| pigs were aiiione the slain. I’esidenls who had the niisi’orl une net to he under cover wen' hadly hi nisei] hy Ihi' billing hail. Sloe!; was ahiiosl driven mad, and in their I rani ie elioris to escape the animals meed info wire ienecs, in many case:; with disasI rons result'.. The est minted loss in this area alone is estimated at over CIO.01)11. Most of I he dinners are uninsured. in tin Baan Baa (list rid the fanners have hist jiraetieally everythin";. Bog “dai I a red even worse. Here had was nicked up on Die verandahs in places i toot high. The Commercial Hotel was unrooled. On .selector innl LOO acres of wheat ready for stripping, with prospect- of a nine-hag yield. He will not harvest a hag. .Many others suffered similarly.