BOY ELECTROCUTED.
FATALITY AT LOWER HUTT. SWINGING ON A WIRE. FACTS NOT FULLY KNOWN. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A boy, aged 14 years, Thomas David Allan son, was electrocuted at Lower Hutt this morning. Apparently a, wire had been stretched "between two poles, from near the top of one, and tied to the other a few feet from the ground. The hoy was swinging on this, it is surmised, and caused it to come in contact with live wires. Nothing, however, is known definitely. The wire is on railway property.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 229, 27 September 1930, Page 13
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