LIGHTNING RISKS.
An expert at the Meteorologist Office, expounding theories about lightning risks, warns folk against iron fences and outstanding trees in the o t pen and fireplaces or open windows and doors. He adds an assurance that the inside of a motor car is quite safe so long as it is driven slowly, the only risk being that lightning might put the steering gear out of action. There is an old rhyme about lightning risks under such trees as oaks, elms, beech, ash, etc., but the safety of sheltening beneath a hawthorn. This may, of course, be a pious tribute by our rural forefathers to the hawthorn as the tree that furnished the Crown of Thorns.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 230, 28 September 1935, Page 7 (Supplement)
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