STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
GREENKEEPER'S SHOCK
Struck by lightning last Saturday morning, Mr. H. A. Hayward, Owairaka, is still feeling the effects oi the shock Mr. Hayward, who is a greenkeeper at the Mount Albert Bowling Club, Auckland, was using a motor mower on the bowling green at the time. , , “I had just passed the power -P° !c to which the machine was attached by ilex.” he said yesterday, “when there was a flash of lightning like a blue flare, accompanied by a heavy clap of thunder. , I felt a sharp pain m my right wrist, as if it had been hit. with a stick, and I was taken off my feet and swung right round. I lay on a grass bank for a lew minutes, and was then able to walk away. His doctor told him his.life was saved bv the rubber shoes he was wearing.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20958, 4 December 1942, Page 4
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