LIGHTNING KILLS COW
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN TARANAKI GROUND TORN UP Press Association NEW PLYMOUTH, Today. A severe thunderstorm •which passed over North Taranaki on Wednesday was accompanied by heavy rain and brilliant lightning flashes, one of which killed a cow belonging to Mr. E. Locke, of Dorset Road, Hillsborough. The cow was apparently killed instantly, as its nose was stuck into the ground with the force of the fall. Toward the end of the spine a round patch of hair, almost as big. as an open hand, had been burned off, while along the side that had been struck there were three or four thin zig-zag lines burned through the nair. All the hair was burned off the udder. Another surprising feature was the state of the ground about the spot where the cow lay. The cow, with several others, had been grazing in what was once the bed of a swamp and there are many logs sticking out of the ground. In several places patches of ground had been torn up and the soil scattered. A small log embedded in the ground had been torn out.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19290920.2.185
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 773, 20 September 1929, Page 16
Word Count
187LIGHTNING KILLS COW Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 773, 20 September 1929, Page 16
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in