Severe Hailstorms
News has been received of a phenomenal hailstorm at Cheviot on Saturday evening. Along the track of the storm, which did not cover a wide area, the crops were devastated. Scores of windows were smashed and corrugated iron roofs dented, and in some cases perforated.
The storm tvas surprisingly local, but was very disastrous to some of the crops. One field of two hundred acres of oats, estimated to yield eighty bushels to the acre, was absolutely 'ruined, and other fine crops in the track of the storm Avere devastated. A beautiful orchard was absolutely stripped of fruit and the trees denuded of the branches.
In one instance a galvanised iron roof was perforated in fifty places. The hailstones were very large, several averaging four inches in circumference, and weighing thirteen to the pound. A rough estimate of the damage to grain crops places it at £3OOO. Some turnip and rape crops were badly knocked about
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Manawatu Herald, 15 January 1903, Page 2
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158Severe Hailstorms Manawatu Herald, 15 January 1903, Page 2
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