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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16706, 25 July 1928, Page 6

During a heavy thunderstorm on a recent evening Mr. \V. Bell, the wellknown Te Rehunga farmer, had a startling expel ience. With his wife aud daughter he was sitting at the fireside when there was a loud noise in the roof, like that of an explosion, and immediately all the lights went out. Mr. Bell tried to ring the power board, but found ! that the telephone had been put out of order also. He went to a neighbor’s to ring up, but found this' ’phone also oMj of order, though the lights in the houjl'i had not been affected. Next when Mr. Bell went to his cowshed,' a short distance from the house, he found the lights and. the. motor in perfect order and could hear of no similar experience among his neighbors. When investigation was made by the power board’s men it was fouhd that all the lights had fused and eveu the wires in the meter had fused. It would appear that Mr. Bell and his family were fortunate in escaping so well as they did, for lightning evidently was the cause of the rais- , chief.