WANGANUI HAILSTORM
SNOW MANTLES TAIHAPE FALL UP TO SIX INCHES (Por Press Association.) WANGANUI, this day. A heavy hailstorm early to-day covered the landscape with a white mantle of hail, which thawed quickly causing flooding damage to houses through leaks. Orchards and gardens also suffered. There is a heavy coating of snow in the Kakatahi district.
The Parapara road is again blocked by three extensive slips which will take some days to clear. Three inches of snow fell in three hours at Taihape and six inches in the back country. Cars could not get through for some time in Hihitahi. STORM ON HIGH COUNTRY The storm which passed over the Gisborne district yesterday afternoon left a heavy coating of snow on the Raukumara Range, where it lay thickly from Whatatutu northwards this morning. The snow did not reach the low hills in the district.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20043, 15 September 1939, Page 11
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144WANGANUI HAILSTORM Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20043, 15 September 1939, Page 11
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