Havoc was recently caused by lightning at Lake Rotoiti, source of the Buller River, Nelson. The picture shows remnants of a telephone-line which was melted for four hundred yards by one flash. At the top left is shown a sample of the original wire, and immediately to the right is a piece of shattered line grafted to a pebble. The line connected the Post Office with the accommodation house.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 56, 22 March 1937, Page 11
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69Havoc was recently caused by lightning at Lake Rotoiti, source of the Buller River, Nelson. The picture shows remnants of a telephone-line which was melted for four hundred yards by one flash. At the top left is shown a sample of the original wire, and immediately to the right is a piece of shattered line grafted to a pebble. The line connected the Post Office with the accommodation house. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 56, 22 March 1937, Page 11
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