DEVASTATING HAILSTORM.
ENORMOUS DAMAGE. MANY WILD BIRDS KILLED. • lovstst.iiLinn hailsiDi in was experienced al. Tarce, New South Wales, last. Tuesday It was heralded by thunder like Iho nil tin and roar of ;i big cannon, then ilieie was a deluge "f stones a I unit, the si/o of an ordinary walnut. I 'io'.v ei • anil veget aide gardens wen; laid waste. Due man lost !'><!o tomato plants hearing fruit. The hailstorm, which was ;i''fi!ii|iaiiicd liv very little ram. swept the valley of the Manning from Kjmhri!<i to the sea, a distanee ot more tlian '0 ihe followilit',* morning levcaled that irtoie than 1000 window panes had been smashed, and glaziers worn working at orurn all that day. Special orders for el ass v: ere de.spatehed to Sydney. Tlki Methodist Chinch lost 44 small sieined class panes, and in the house adjoining 17 window-panes were bioken Some houses lost more than 20. Magpies and other wild birds were found dead under trees. A taNieab driver was crossing the river on the Tinonee punt when the storm burst, and the hail riddled the, strong hood of his ear.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20084, 23 October 1928, Page 12
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186DEVASTATING HAILSTORM. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20084, 23 October 1928, Page 12
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