WATERSPOUT IN FIJI.
alarm among residents. WRECKING OF SOME SHEDS. [.FROM OUR, OWN CORRESPONDENT.] SUVA. February 26. A very unusual occurrence took place at Levuka recently when a peculiar hiss ins was heard by residents. The explanation was cot long in coming, as suddenly the spectators became aware that a larga waterspout was coming in to the land from the reef, where a heavy rain storm had been caught up to the low lying clouds, forming a waterspout. Hardly aware of what to fear the people waited >n silence to see what might happen. The waterspout passed over the shore and crept across a paddock and then veered nea» to the house of an old resident, happily missing it by yards. It then struck sow sheds. Sheets of roofing iron were whirled of: as if they were feathers and thrown hundreds of feet away after beimi raised fully 150 ft. in the air. No one was hurt.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19265, 2 March 1926, Page 12
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