SAD TRAGEDY
YOUTH STRUCK DEAD
VIOLENT THUNDERSTORM.
AFFECTS AUCKLAND PROVINCE
TE AWAMUTU, This Day.
A violent thunderstorm about 9.30 p.m. yesterday crashed over Te Awamutu. The first clap extinguished all the electric lights from the Horahora power station. A second clap five minutes later restored them, but this morning all the current is off. The damage is believed to be located between Te Awamutu and Cambridge. Ivan Pressland, aged 19 years, a postal cadet, was found early this morning killed by lightning. He was lying on the footpath. He had applied for a transfer to Gisborne, where his parents reside, and was waiting to be relieved any day. —Press Assn. HOUSE IN THE CITY. FIRED BY LIGHTNING. j AUCKLAND, This Day. During a heavy thunderstorm about midnight a house at Epsom, owned and occupied by Mr S. J. Amburv, caught fire through lightning striking the gable and breaking a gaspipe. The damage was only about £15.—Press Assn. HOUSE BADLY DAMAGED. BOAEDS TOBN OFF. AUCKLAND, This Day. Two houses at Northcote were struck by lightning last night. The chimney of one was levelled to the roof and the chimney of the other was partly destroyed, while a number of boards were I stripped from under the eaves, water and gas pipes were fused and brass water taps were melted. —Press Assn.
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Northern Advocate, 20 September 1921, Page 5
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