A SEVERE STORM.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1556, 27 September 1912, Page 8

A SEVERE STORM.

(By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Auckland, September 2G. News comcs from Kaitaia, in the for north, of-a curious storm' at a place called Pnkcpoto. Tho Kaitaia correspondent of tho "Herald" writes!— About throe o'clock a whirlwind approached from the west with a deafening roar. It covered a spaeo of from 150 to 200 yards wide, as it travelled along. A hundred pine trees wove destroyed on Mr.-Stuart Masters'® property. The wind passed, close to tho Native school; levelling a largp blue sum tree in the school ground, and the school was shaken as;if by an earthquake. Tho children becamo momentarily panic-strick-en, until reassured/by tho master.' The storm passed over the bush-clad hills southward, and a well-defined mark shows tho track of the storm, bush trees being broken off, and some stripped of tho top portions, others betas . levelled. Tho 'storm'was. followed by a,heavy-hail shower. ..this being especially severe between Puke.poto'and the HereHno Gorge. Hail, as largo as liens' oges. fell in places,' and, at tho Wnimii Settlement, several windows were ..broken. One hailstono taken into the Ahiparn School measured four inches across. One at Tak'ahuo weighed two ounces. ,