ELECTRICAL STORM

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20841, 27 June 1939, Page 9

ELECTRICAL STORM

FENCES STRUCK BY LIGHTNING (Special to Times.) TAUMARUNUT, Tuesday • An electrical storm on Sunday morning was felt with extraordinary effect at Te Whakarae, six miles down the Wanganui River. Ligntning struck electrified wire fences on the farm ot Mr K. R. Borck. Posts were split and battens with pieces of wire and parts of posts were hurled some distance away. Galvanised wire melted and was sprayed like aluminium paint on to standing posts.

WOMAN RECEIVES BHOCK

LIGHTNING STRIKES HOUSE AUCKLAND, Tuesday For the second time within two years an electric power transformer in St. Heliers Bay was struck by lightning during the week-end. The Hash was accompanied by a resounding peal of thunder that startled residents The lightning exploded a radio in a house owned by Mrs A. Dent. Mrs M. E. Saunders, who was listening to the radio, received shock. The radio was ruined and the end of the bed on which Mrs Saunders was lying was blistered by :he heat.

BUILDING STRUCK

POST OFFICE AND STORE (By Telegraph.—Press Association) PUKEKOHE, Monday Lightning on Saturday night struck the building which houses the post omce and store at W'aiau Pa, Franklin County. The postmaster, Mr H. G. Kettle, and his family were away at the time On their return they found a hole in the wall near the power meter and beams under the verandah split. All the power fuses were blown and t.he lead into the telephone had been burned through. Fuses in other houses were also blown through lightning striking the power lines.