DROWNED AT HORAHORA.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 306, 26 December 1924, Page 4

DROWNED AT HORAHORA.

FEIX OFF A LOG INTO HEAD RACE. SHOWING FRIENDS ROUND THE WORKS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CAMBRIDGE, this day. While 6howing a party round at the Horahora hydro-electric works on Christmas Eve, John Feldt, aged 40, a single man, fell into the head-race and was drowned before the eyes of his friends. Feldt, who was a carpenter, came up from the hydro-electric works at Mangahao some months ago, and was engaged on the extensions to the plant that are now being carried out at Horahora. On Wednesday evening he was showing three friends over the works. Coming to the head-race there was a six by six inch baulk of timber to be walked across. Feldt went first, and when about half-way over he turned to give some instructions to those that were following him. The next thing his horrified friends knew he had fallen o<T and dropped 10ft into the swirling waters below. The body was. not seen again, and in fact has not yet been recovered. Exactly what happened it is impossible to say. Feldt was used to walking about in dangerous places, and the fact that he turned round when half-way across the baulk of timber showed that he was quite familiar with what to unpractised people would have been a dangerous walk. Feldt was a native of Denmark, He had no relations in New Zealand, but his mother is still living in Denmark, and he has a sister living in New York.