STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
HOUSE DAMAGED. WIRELESS CABINET BLOWN TO PIECES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 25. Severe damage was done to a house in Waitara during an electrical storm about 8 o’clock this morning. Lightning struck a dwelling occupied by Mrs A. Lawrence and her daughter in High Street, running down the wireless aerial, smashing the lightning arrester and blowing the wireless cabinet to pieces, which were scattered about the room. The windows in the room were also smashed and the beading round the window frames was blown off. It was found after the occurrence that the outer wall of the house was about three inches out of alignment. Two occupants were in another room in the house and were not injured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1939, Page 9
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123STRUCK BY LIGHTNING Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1939, Page 9
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