VIOLENT STORM
DAMAGE IN TARANAKI. NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday. A severe thunderstorm, accompanied by extraordinarily heavy rain and hail, passed over New Plymouth in tlie early hours of this morning. A water main at Mangorei was struck by lightning, a great hole being torn in the steel pipe, seriously restricting the water supply. A thunderbolt tore a deep hole in a garden at Mangorei, within a few feet of a house. There were heavy seas on tho coast, hut the liners Rotorua and Raranga, and coastal and small craft, rode out the storm comfortably in the harbour. —(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 May 1932, Page 6
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