THUNDERSTORM AT MASTERTON.
Per Press Association. Masteeton, February 18. There was a phenomenal thunderstorm in Masterton yesterday evening. The peals of thunder were exceptionally heavy, and the flashes of lightning unusually vivid. The rainfall for a quarter of aa hour was without precedent it the district —the water literally descending in sheets. In a few minutes almost every street was flooded with storm water, which did some damage to goods in a few instances. The total rainfall since Saturday night is a fraction over two inches: The rain will have a markedly beneficial effect on pastures and rape crops,
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8743, 18 February 1907, Page 2
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99THUNDERSTORM AT MASTERTON. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8743, 18 February 1907, Page 2
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