PALMERSTON NORTH SOCIETY POR PREVENTION OP CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. ■JVHE PUBLIC is earnestly requested to notify tho Society of any aeof cruelty that conies under notice. Permanent Travelling Inspector: Mr. R. Emmett, 75 College Street. Phono 7010. Secretary: Mr. A. P., Wimsett, 201 Church Street, ’Phone 5573.
PLANTS ETC. FOE, SALE (~)N10N Plants, Straw Spanish. 3/3 Longkeepcrs 3/6 1000. Freight extra. deduction largo quantities Brown and Son, Pukekohe. SHELTER AND HEDGE TREES, Ornamental and Flowering Shrubs, etc. We still lead for Quality, Quantity and Cheapness. Get our Prieo List Free. B. H. JUST FLORIST. THE SQUARE, and 11 COLLEGE STREET. "T'OMATO Plants and Flower Seed-lings-—largo supplies now ready. Price lists post free. PERSSON'S NURSERY, 256 Church Street. DAIRY FARMERS Havo a Free Demonstration of our STEAM STERILIZING BOILER. From Cold Water to Steam in 25 minutes. RAMSAY & CAMPBELL, LTD. Plumbers and Ironmongers, 48 Eangi'tikei Street.
AiAiiU.', -i'i'KIET, Off Rangitikei St. Phono 5191 FOR MOTOR SPRING REPAIRS Agricultural and General Smith Work. eounted from the Air Ministry roof, At the. height of the storm at Dagenham, what was described by an eyewitness as a "fireball-” narrowly missed a sports pavilion and struck some goalposts. “There was a terrific flash,” said a member of the club. “A goalpost was splintered and pieces were thrown over a wide area.” Rescue of Octogenarian An empty car was filled by a shower of bricks at Wanstead. Tho car was standing outside a house which was struck by lightning, and brickwork crashed from tho roof. Patrons at a Grimsby cinema were unable to leave for half an hour owing to a deep flood in the street. In tho course of the tor- | rentiai rain many street lights were j put out. Water poured into the cellars of a hotel and the fire brigade were summoned to pump them out. Traffic had to bo diverted at two subways under bridges. The telephono system was affected in some parts of the town. Several people had remarkable escapes when lightning struck a house in Cardiff. Part of the roof collapsed causing considerable damage to bedrooms. The occupier, Mr. F. Lloyd, had to carry his 85-year-old mother to safety. “I thought helf had been let loose,” he said later, “I was half-blinded by dust and smoke,” In Newcastle, a quarter of an inch of rain fell in half an hour.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 248, 21 October 1935, Page 12
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