DEATH BY MISADVENTURE.
MAORI BOY ELECTROCUTED
(Bj Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) ROTORUA, this day. At the adjourned inquest this morn ing on Ratu Rapana, nine years of age killed on July 18, the coroner (Mr. S. L Paterson, 531.), returned a verdict tha deceased, by misadventure, came int< contact with a high voltage (50,000 electric power line and was electrocuted He added a rider that telephone huts o similar structures should not be placei so close' to poles carrying power lines a to permit persons stepping therefrom o: to the steps placed on such poles.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 174, 25 July 1928, Page 9
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