MAN ELECTROCUTED.
FREEZING- WORKS ENGINEER. HIGH-TENSION WIRE CONTACT. (By Telegraph. —Press Association.) MASTERTON, Sunday. While working on a new main at the Waingawa freezing works yesterday morning an electrical engineer, Mr. Cyril Harold August, aged 43 years, came in contact Avith a high-tension wire and was electrocuted. Artificial respiration was applied, without avail, for five hours. Mr. August, who was a returned soldier, was a married man with five young children. He had been employed at the works for the past 20 years.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 198, 22 August 1932, Page 9
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83MAN ELECTROCUTED. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 198, 22 August 1932, Page 9
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