STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
RADIO STATION DAMAGED WAIROA. December 19. During the height of a heavy thunderstorm yesterday. Station 2ZP, owned and operated by Mr E. A. Perry, was struck by lightning. The flash hit the short-wave aerial, and travelled down to the studio, causing damage estimated at £IOO. The discharge also reached the private residence of the owner, badly damaging an electric stove, and causing a severe fright to Mrs Perry Senr. It was remarkable that the flash did not fuse the wires on the metal mast, but blew all the insulators off. The major discharge hit the operating room, which fortunately was unoccupied at the time, otherwise It would have caused serious injury. The station, which is one of the most popular for children’s sessions in the North Island, is now working on one-quarter the power it was previously, and was on the air last night as usual, despite the huge task which confronted the owner. No other damage is reported in the district, although the thunderstorm was one of the severest in local history. ________
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19987, 20 December 1934, Page 11
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