ELECTRICAL STORM
Transformers Blown IN2. Press Association) AUCKLAND. December 16. A severe electrical storm which lashed Whitianga between noon and 2 p m today burnt out transformers at a sub-station and left the whole Coromandel peninsula without power for seven hours and a half People in Whitianga said the thunder and lightning were intense. Rain rapidly flooded streets and paddocks Motorists near Whitianga found conditions almost impossible. Water cascaded from the hills and rushed in rivers down the roads. Transformers at the substation at Kaimarama were burned out by the lightning More than 1000 consumers from Port Charles to Hikuai. including Coromandel township, Whitianga. Coroglen. and Tairua. were without power till 830 p.m. Dectricity Department officials in Hamilton said four technicians were rushed to the sub-station soon after the fault was reported.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30316, 17 December 1963, Page 18
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