FIERCE HAILSTORM.
FARM ANIMALS n KILLED* DAMAGE IN NEW SOUTH WALES. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY. Jan. 21. A terrific hailstorm swept Barden Grove .near Dungog. The corn crops were ruined and the fruit trees were stripped. Large numbers of pigs and fowls were killed. Horses and cattle also suffered .severely. . • . Hailstones fell which weighed Boz. They dented the roofs of buildings, as if by hammers, and they also cut telephone wires. Lumps of ice were found in the centres of watermelons, most of which were chopped to pieces.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19542, 22 January 1927, Page 9
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88FIERCE HAILSTORM. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19542, 22 January 1927, Page 9
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