A VIOLENT WHIRLWIND
PATH OF DESTRUCTION. (Per United Press Association.) TE AWAMUTU, November 19. A whirlwind, or some other unusual visitation, occurred to-day during a heavy rainstorm. Settlers along the Frontier and Panui roads heard a very loud noise, and before they realised the cause the branches of trees were wrenched off, and were scattered along a patch several chains away. The whirlwind appeared to travel due southward, just missing Mr Burns’s cowshed, crossed Frontier road to Mr Nicholson’s property, w’ ere a cowshed was completely demolished, and part of the milking plant twisted. The pine trees on Mr Whitton’s farm were split and topped, and boards and sheets of corrugated iron from the front of his pigshed were strewn about. The path of the storm was only about a chain wide, an it extended forever a mile before being spent in the direction of Tc Mawhai Railway Station.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19952, 20 November 1926, Page 15
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149A VIOLENT WHIRLWIND Otago Daily Times, Issue 19952, 20 November 1926, Page 15
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