LIGHTNING STRIKES
SCHOOL DAMAGED
HOLE TORN IN ROOF
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, June 4.
Lightning struck the new wing of the Pukekohe High School about 3.30 p.m. today, tearing a large hole in, the roof and scattering the, tiles for some distance round the building. Fortunately the pupils had left - for home a few minutes earlier.
The headmaster, Mr. W. F. J. Munro, and members of the staff were in the school when the building was struck by lightning and for a brief space were thrown into a state of confusion.
"We did not know whether we were coming or going for a minute," Mr. Munro said. "We were deafened by the noise and confused by the flash. The telephone wires were damaged and the fuses blown."
During a severe storm which swept the Pukekohe district early on May 6 last a farm at Helvetia, about one mile outside Pukekohe, was struck by lightning, and four fat cows, valued at from £30 to £35, were killed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 13
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