AUSTRALIAN NEWS
A PHENOMENAL HAILSTORM. DAMAGE IN NEW SOUTH WALES. (Preaa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, January 21. A terrific hailstorm swept Barden Grove, near Dungog. The com crops and fruit trees were stripped, and a large number of pigs and fowls killed.* Horses and cattle also suffered severely. Hailstones weighing 3oz fell denting the roofs as if they had been struck by hammers, and cutting the telephone wires. Lumps of ice were found in the centre of water melons, most of which were chopped to pieces. DROUGHT IN QUEENSLAND. SETTLERS FACING HEAVY LOSSES. BRISBANE ( January 21 The chief pastoral inspector, after a tour of the State, reports that, with the exception of the area east and south of Charleville, the country ?s in a bad state owing to the drought, and from three miles north of Charleville to Longreach it is in a deplorable condition. It will only be possible for the holdings to carry on with the present feed fop five weeks.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20004, 22 January 1927, Page 11
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