VAGARIES OF LIGHTNING
It is not possible to account for the 1 eccentricities of lightning when it elects to blast something on earth. Some two' months ago a flash struck one of the now brick.buildings of the New.Zea-' land • Refrigerating Company's-, bipr works-at Imlayi Wahganni. It nicked out a patch of brickwork from the front of the building, then glancing down the face of the brickwork (traceable by a' long black smudge), jumped across a." space," and cut out a block of bricks; from the corner of the brickwork, base of the high chimney stack, shooting one brick against a' wooden building some seventy feet away, with such force.that it smashed one of tbe boards, and then nicked out another patch of brickwork on the other side of t]ie chimney. Such was'the damage done to the.' stack i (which at", tho. time had no conductor) that some, five hundred bricks wore used to effect repairs. ■Fortunately the mishap occurred in the oarlv morning, when there was nobody about.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2929, 15 November 1916, Page 11
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168VAGARIES OF LIGHTNING Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2929, 15 November 1916, Page 11
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