WAIPIPI: EAST END.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 1, Issue 93, 16 May 1913, Page 3

WAIPIPI: EAST END.

THE HAIL STORM. On Saturday evening very vivid ard continuous lightning, with heavy peals of thund:r, were the forerunners of a terrific hail storm, which burst about 9 p.m. and lasted some tew minutes. For a few seconds there was a pause, to gather force as it were, and without further warcing the ice actually tumbled down in lumps, as if scattered from Mount Egmont. Such a hail storm was never remembered bv tha "oldest resident." On examination of a dish full of ice lumps, they were found to be anything from cne inch square or round to 2£ inches long, l:i inches in width, by liinchea thick, and in all sorts of fantastic shapes. Some slight damage was done by the storm, such ts schocl windows being broken and wreaths ia the cemetery smashed. Young grasses ami othir crops came in for their share of battering,