DAMAGE BY LIGHTNING
FLASH STRIKES AERIAL MAST SEVERAL HOUSES SUFFER Press Association INVERCARGILL, Wednesday. A particularly vivid flash of: lightning startled many Invercargill residents about 11 o’clock this morning and considerable damage was done in the vicinity of Hollywood Terrace, Gladstone. A high wireless aerial mast on the lawn in front of Mr. J. W. Smith’s residence apparently attracted the lightning, for the aerial wires were burnt up and a mass of soft earth was scattered all over a nearby concrete walk. Solid concrete paths were torn up in several places. The bulb of the electric light overhanging the tennis court and window's on all sides of the house were smashed. Similar wreckage was noticed in houses in the near neighbourhood and even in two residences on North Road, some hundreds of yqrds away. All telephones and electric light systems were put out of commission. The explosion which occurred was accompanied by a blinding flash, which was repeated in lesser degree in several of the adjacent houses in which electricity travelled along telephone wires and ruined the instruments.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 984, 29 May 1930, Page 18
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