ELECTROCUTED.
POWER BOARD EMPLOYEE. (By Telegrnph—Press Association.) GISBORNE, Wednesday. Roy Bartlett, an employee of the Poverty Bay Electric Power Board, was electrocuted while working at Waimata this afternoon. Mr. Bartleet was up a pole when he fell across a line with voltage of 6000 and was instantly killed. He was 27 years of age, and leaves a wife and two children.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 198, 23 August 1928, Page 9
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