SEVERE STORM
LIGHTNING DAMAGES POST OFFICE Dominion Special Service. Auckland, September 5. A severe thunderstorm passed over Te Hoe, 15 miles from Huntly, yesterday. Te Hoe post ofiice suffered from the effects of the lightning, a telephone being blown right off the wall . The postmistress received . a severe shock, but was not seriously injured. Two telegraph poles near the post- ofiice were broken in halves. During a storm at Ngaruawahla yesterday, the Raglan County gauge recorded 4.65 in. of rain. Most of this fell in two hours. The county engineer states that very bad slips have occurred on Huntly West Road, and the road Is entirely blocked. Mr. W. Hutt, a resident for 50 years, says he cannot remember a storm of the same severity occurring at Ngaruawahla before. The military camp near Ngaruawahia was like a sheet of water. Stock in many shops suffered considerably, as did gardens in the town.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 290, 7 September 1928, Page 13
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