A peculiar experience recently befell an Okato settler, a Mr Hill, son of Mr Hill, coachpainter, of Stratford and Patea. He and his family were watching a waterspout at sea, when, to their horor, they saw that it was approaching them,*and before long it had leached their lipuse, scooping up everything in its path. As it neared the house a large pool of water in the garden was sucked up, and nest the whole roof of the house was lifted off and carried several hundred feet into the air, finally being deposited in some bush about half a mile away. To make matters worse, it began to rain heavily after the whirlwind had passed, the plight of tho family, sheltering in a roofless house, being anything but an enviable one.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18420, 29 June 1925, Page 5
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130Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18420, 29 June 1925, Page 5
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