MONDAY’S STORM
YOUTH KILLED BY LIGHTNING. HOUSES DAMAGED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Te Awamutu, Sept. 20. A violent thunderstorm about 9.30 last evening crashed over Te Awamutu. The first clap extinguished all the electric lights from the Horahora power station, and the second clap five minutes later restored them, but thia morning all the current is off. The damage is believed to be located between Te Awamutu and Cambridge.
Ivan Pressland, aged 19 years, a postal cadet, was found early this morning kijled by lightning and lying on the footpath. He had applied for a transfer to Gisborne, where his parents reside, and was waiting to be relieved any day. Auckland, Sept. 20.
Two houses at Northcote were struck by lightning last night. The chimney of one was levelled to the roof. The chimney of the other was partly destroyed. while a number of boards were stripped from under the eaves. Water and gas pipes were fused, and brass water taps were melted. During a heavy thunderstorm about midnight on Monday night a house at Epsom, Auckland, owned and occupied by Mi\ S. J. Ambury, caught fire through lightning striking the gable and breaking a gas pipe. The damage is estimated at only about £l5.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1921, Page 5
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