WHIRLWIND AT FARM

Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1935, Page 6

WHIRLWIND AT FARM

VISITATION AT HUIRANGL SECOND TIME IN NINE MONTHS. For the second time in nine months a whirlwind visited the farm of Mr. H. Mace St Huirangi yesterday inbrning, and for the second time it removed the roof from, tiie fowlhousb. The experience was a Shock to Mrs. Mace, the miniature cyclone lifting the iron and woodwork into the air, carrying it bodily for 30 yards, and finally depositing it with.a tremendous crash oft the side of the house, against the room where Mrs. Mace was working. Little damage was done. The occurrence took place between 9 and 10 o’clock yesterday, neighbours witnessing the whirlwind advancing up the Valley. It sheered branches off poplar trees on the side of a nearby hill and, changing direction, swooped upon, the fowl house. The iron was carried across a flourishing vegetable garden and smashed a window in the house as it. was deposited by the visitation’s dying effort. Yesterday’s incident was a remarkable coincidence, said Mrs. Mace, to a Daily News representative. Nine months ago a whirlwind advanced from the same direction, removed branches from the same poplars attacked yesterday, and then dumped the same fowl house robf in the vegetable garden. “Last time the whirlwind came at night, and we spent hours in the darkness collecting badlyscared fowls. They 'were just commencing to lay and the egg supply waS stopped completely. This time the fowls were having an off season, and it will not make much difference.” «