STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
RELIEF WORKER KILLED. TWO OTHERS INJURED. SUBURBAN BUILDING DAMAGED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. SYDNEY, Feb. 21. A vivid flash of lightning during an intense electrical storm over the Newcastle district this afternoon struck a relief worker dead and injured two others, one of them seriously. The man killed was John Hogan, the others being J. S. Duffrey and It. Vale. Duffrey was admitted to hospital for urgent treatment. The men were standing near a picket fence when the lightning struck right Into their midst. During a sudden storm in Sydney Ibis afternoon lightning damaged u building in the suburbjol' Waterloo. Mr H. H. Sterling, chairman of the New Zealand Railways Board, who is en route io New Zealand in the Strathaird, will (says a London message;. attend a conference of railway experts in Sydney.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 9817, 22 February 1936, Page 9
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138STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 9817, 22 February 1936, Page 9
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