DESTRUCTIVE HAILSTORM.
Per Press Association. OAMARU, last night
A disastrous hailstorm was experienced in many parts of the district yesterday. Mail in many places reached "the size of small lien eggs, more like pieces of ice than ordinary hailstones. The fall was exceedingly thorough, extending over a considerable part of the country. In places fields of grain were completely destroyed, while others adjoining were scarcely touched. The greatest damage appears to have been done at Clifton Falls, where the iron roof of a large barn was riddled. A number of crops were completely mangled, and utterly ruined. Rape ready for feeding oil and young turnips were beaten out of existence, ana even cocksfoot and thistles cut to atoms. Forty minutes was the duration of the fall in Windsor township and neighborhood, where the iall was also heavy and considerable damage was done, hut the Windsor Government sel l lenient escaped almost scathiess, while only a small area of Elderslie settlement was touched. Tokarahi settlement was noi. so fortunate, serious, damage 1o crops being reported. Other parts of the country report crops and grass as badly beaten down. The full extent of the damage cannot be ascertained, but it must amount to many thousands oi pounds.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1072, 14 December 1903, Page 4
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