LIGHTNING HAVOC.
HOUSE AT WAITARA STRUCK.
CABINET BLOWN TO PIECES,
(By Telegraph.—PreM Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, Sunday
Severe damage was done to a hou.se at Waitara during an electrical storm about fight o'clock this morning. i Lightning struck a dwelling occupied by .Mrs. A. Lawrence and her daughter in 1 riigh Street, running down the wireless aerial and annulling the lightning arrester and blowing tnc wireless cabinet | to pieces. The window* in the room were also .-.mashed, and the beading round the window frames was blown off. It was found after the occurence that the outer wall of the house wa. about 3in out of alignment. The two occupants were in another room in the house and were not injured.
Street lamps, fuses and meters were damaged at Waitara and telephone and telegraph line* also suffered. It took some time for the fault* to be rectified. The Opunake Power Board staff had a buay night repairing lines damaged by electrical atorms.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 148, 26 June 1939, Page 10
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