STORM IN OTAGO
LIGHTNING AFFECTS ’PHONE. By Telegraph.—:Frees Associstion. Dunedin, Last Night. A strange incident occurred at Tapanui to-day. An extremely heavy thunderstorm broke over the district about noon and just after a flash of lightning a woman, who was in communication by telephone with Edievale, was knocked unconscious and did not recover for half an hour. It was then discovered that;the woman who was speaking from Edievale had also received a severe ehock having been knocked unconscious for fully five minutes. The lightning also put all the fuses on the high tension wires out of action.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1926, Page 7
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