STORM IN WESTRALIA
SEVERE DISTURBANCE. PERTH, March 10. A fierce electrical storm swept over the south-east agricultural districts and caused extensive damage to crops, houses ami fences. A strip of country twenty miles long by five miles wide was laid bare. At Pingelly a 100-mile-an-hour gale swept the town uproofing houses, razing fences and hundreds of trees. Nearly every home in the district suffered damage. Many creeks were flooded by the torrential rains and are running bank high. At Narrabean thirty chains of railway have been washed away.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 59, 11 March 1930, Page 7
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88STORM IN WESTRALIA Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 59, 11 March 1930, Page 7
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