This district was the scene of terrifying' thunderstorm on Saturday, 22nd, just before noon (says the Wyndham Farmer). The flashes of lightning and peals of thunder were awesome ! No startling damage, fortunately, occurred, so far as we can learn : but, as in evidence of tho force of the lightning, it mav be said that on Mr John Wood’s farm, Wyndham Ridges, the liquid fire struck a line of trees 20 yards from the house, and a pinus insignia, 35ft high and 2ft in diameter at base, was completely severed 15ft up the trunk, while another big tree had the bark stripped clean off it on the near side. All over the place (he telephone wires were disorganised. too; and Linesman Ryan had to go to Fortrose yesterday, where, it was reported, several poles had been knocked over by the furious elements. No bad after-effects with WADE’S WORM FIGS. Pleasant, sure and certain.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3556, 9 May 1922, Page 9
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