TORNADO HAVOC
SEVERE DAMAGE NEAR WAITAItA. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 26. A startling tornado occurred in the omicro district, north of Waitara, during a severe electrical storm this afternoon. Sweeping up from the sea in a zig-zag course it wrought havoc on a number of farms, razing belts of trees, and damaging barns and other buildings. The fury of the tornado was shown in a gullv,. the sides ol which were clothed with heavy native bush. Timber was uprooted cn masse the roots of trees lifting the earth with them, so that the hillsides afterwards presented the appearance of having been subject to a big lanJ slide. , The storm raged furiously for seme lime, hailstones of extraordinary size pelting down.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1929, Page 1
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