HAILSTORM IN SOUTH CANTERBURY.
•Pea? Press Association, aya v 'Waimate, 2s.An- unusually heavy hail and, thun- ( derstorm passed over a portion of this-, district yesterday forenoon. The hail was very large and played havoc wherever . :the, .storm traversed especially .- in gardens ,by stripping all kinds of pkmts and leaving,' nothing but ihe stems. The grain crops, do not appear to be much injured except in one- case.; jp. the suburbs of the tpwn where* a rr ten acre paddock' of wheat was 'completely cut ' cTaWn and' is f . not • worth ! cutting; The isforinf was confined^ to, a-narrow strip and passed out to. s^a.;" r 'Snow lay ja fo\@e; r clinches deep , and ; was* indulged in. •The snow in the shade; lay' "till ' this^ morning. " ' M^" ' ; -- ' v
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Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12177, 29 January 1903, Page 7
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126HAILSTORM IN SOUTH CANTERBURY. Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12177, 29 January 1903, Page 7
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