STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
A HOUSE DAMAGED
By Telegraph—Per Press Association
BLENHEIM, November 10.
The home of C. E. Matthews of Papaura was struck by lightning during an electrical storm on Saturday afternoon. One wall was partly wrecked, weather boards being hurled a considerable distance while the interior lining boards of the same wall were hurled across the room narrowly missing two little girls and a maid who were in the kitchen.
In several other portions of the house, floor hoards were broken and the. exterior wall penetratedTn all nine windows wore shattered as if by an explosion in the interior. The whole building was wrapped in blue flame for a considerable period and later became eveloped in a thick smoke, but there was no outbreak of fi re.
Outside, two sections of fencing were completely burnt away by the current, a telephone pole shattered, and a fencing post split. Matthews who was attending to his fowls was knocked over by the discharge, hut suffered no injury. One fowl was wrapped in blue flame and knocked out, hut subsequently revived.
Several residents report the telephone fuses were thrown about, but there were no casualties.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1930, Page 4
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