STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
A SETTLER KILLED. A settler at the Kurrajong Soldiers' Settlement was killed by lightning in a terrific storm which broke over Richmond and Kurrajong late one recent afterneon, says a Sydney paper. The victim, Frederick Hays, aged 28 years, was ploughing with two horses in an orchard close to biti home when ha was struck dead. The two horses in the plough also were killed. Hays, who was well known in the district, is survived by a widow and baby. He was one of the first settlers on the settlement, having started there about fonr years ago.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19217, 5 January 1926, Page 11
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100STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19217, 5 January 1926, Page 11
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