HOUSE DAMAGED
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. TWO FAMILIES ESCAPE. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, June 10. At the height of a storm last night lightning struck a house in the Mount Wellington district and a chimney was hurled in pieces through the roof into a room, demolishing an open fireplace. Every fuse in the house was burnt out, Two families, comprising eight persons, were in the house, but no one was hurt. The switchboard was shattered, and an electric stove looked as if it had been through a fire.
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Southland Times, Issue 25308, 11 June 1935, Page 7
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