"While lie quoted figures to show ;hat the New Zealander ran little : - isk of being killed by lightning, Dr. W. A. Macky, in an address at the University of Otago, said that five )ut of every 1,000,000 persons in the United States were killed in thunderstorms each year. The safest ■efuge during a thunderstorm was ;he inside of a complete metal vessel—a water tank, for instance, rhis was a complete conductor, and ilectricity would not enter it. A 3erson was safer in a velley than on i mountain top, which was a point rom which electricity would be disiharged, while the best course to idopt was to lie flat on the ground, >r even better, to set into a ditch.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21197, 22 June 1934, Page 12
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120Page 12 Advertisements Column 2 Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21197, 22 June 1934, Page 12
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